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...repository of experience and expertise that might be transported home to improve the lot of one’s countrymen. It’s a scenario that’s difficult not to romanticize.It’s all much harder when you come from plain-and-simple Canada or, worse, from the American Midwest or Southwest or South or West or Northwest or anywhere but two cities in California and one in Illinois. Take the romance out of your place of origin, and not moving up to the big leagues is hard to justify...
...highly touted recruit from the Toronto area, arrived in Cambridge with her knee in a brace.The summer speculation was that Harvard would be loaded in net with the return of Martin from a successful rookie campaign and the addition of Kessler, one of the top youth goalies in Canada. But Kessler’s August injury, initially misdiagnosed, suggested it would be Martin’s show for the entire season. “I knew right away that something was definitely wrong,” Kessler said last year. “I was told that...
...choice." Griffiths, who co-founded San Francisco-based NORM, or National Organization of Restoring Men, says, "I felt that I had been mutilated and denied the pleasures of a foreskin. I never felt comfortable in clothes because my glans was always being abraded." NORM now has outposts in Canada, Britain, Australia and New Zealand. But its message doesn't persuade everyone. "My daughters went and circumcised their boys even though I talked to them about it," Griffiths says. "I cried...
...system of justice is inevitably imperfect, and even one tragic mistake costing an innocent life is too much. The connection between the death penalty and racially charged cases is well documented, and the system needs to be reevaluated to eliminate biases. In an age where all of Western Europe, Canada, and many other countries have abolished the death penalty, it is hard to understand how the United States, with its explicit constitutional denunciation of “cruel and unusual punishment,” can justify retaining such anachronistic, unjust, and inherently flawed barbarism. We can only hope that...
...consequences is that there's no lack of amputees keen to strap on an artificial limb and hit a ball over a net. Since 2002, a wet-season disabled volleyball league has nurtured a squad of high-flying semipro athletes who came fourth at the 2005 World Cup in Canada and are gunning for gold on home soil. Christian Zepp, 26, the team's German coach who arrived in September, reckons a place in the finals, or even victory over the favorites, is within reach. "This is our moment," he says...