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...Godsend--who turned away 42 shots on the night and upped his record to 51 against the Eagles--recorded save after save in the frantic closing seconds, which gave everyone in the house but the Canton. Mass native a coronary...
Widely considered the nation's top collegiate goalie (with his 2.54 goals-against average), the Canton, Mass. native has become B. U's MVP, guiding the Terriers to their first post-season appearance in four years last year and to their position among the nation's elite this year...
Most Chinese seem to welcome the government's harsh response. "We must execute one as a warning to a hundred," editorialized one Canton newspaper, the Yancheng Evening News. To make sure there is no misunderstanding about its intentions, the government has been posting photos of executions, like the ones above, throughout the country. The warning seems to be having a chilling effect: criminal cases during September and October dropped by 42% compared with the same period...
...tight restrictions on dress, by appearing in public in a Western tie and jacket, the first high official to do so since the Cultural Revolution. Like most of China's present leaders, Zhao was brutalized by the Red Guards. In 1967 he was paraded through the streets of Canton in a dunce's cap and denounced as "a stinking remnant of the landlord class." He has come a long way from that parade, and in the process has effected a more substantive revolution of his own. His agricultural reforms as governor of Sichuan (among them: allowing peasants...
...came here not only because Canton and Potsdam, N.Y. are two of the Earth's most god-forsaken hick towns, but because the Crimson is in deep trouble...