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...folk requiem. Gabriel, however, has found a resonance in Biko's death that goes beyond outrage or simple protest. The further away history moves, the deeper Biko cuts. "You can blow out a candle/ but you can't blow out a fire/ once the flame begin to catch/ the wind will blow it higher," Gabriel sings. Hearing that song during last spring's Amnesty International tour, or at the June 14 antiapartheid rally in New York City's Central Park, there was no resisting either its heat or its true moral force. Biko is a song full of ghosts that...
...decision came down to two head coaches, pitting Harvard’s Kathy Delaney-Smith, who had already coached in the Ivy League for 20 seasons and earned legendary status in women’s college basketball, against Jennifer Rizzotti, an up-and-coming young coach at Hartford. The catch? Rizzotti had been a former star—at point guard, no less—in the not-too-distant past, as a national champion and Player of the Year during her four years at Connecticut. The two-time All-American followed up her collegiate success with five seasons...
...hadn’t really done anything on offense,” Pizzotti said. “Just putting in a score pretty easily at the end of the first half was just huge confidence-wise.”The score was Mazza’s 28th career touchdown catch, tying him for first place on Harvard’s all-time list with Carl Morris ’03.“I didn’t remember it until halftime, because it was a tight game,” said Mazza, who finished the game with four receptions...
...Both candidates are finding their voice now in opposition to the status quo," said Donna Brazile, who ran Al Gore's 2000 campaign and has not endorsed a candidate this cycle. "They are defining Clinton as 'more of the same.' There's still time to catch up with Clinton, but they must do so without trying to cancel each other out. In that race, Clinton scores a knockout." The original version of this article incorrectly stated that Peverill Squire is currently a professor at Georgetown. Squire now teaches at the University of Missouri...
...Though it often takes loss of life to catch our attention, these scenes of violence have been occurring on a near weekly basis at stadiums from Turin to Taranto - for years I got to know this Italian version of the hooligan (dubbed Ultra) while covering the Serie A league for the Associated Press seven years ago. Even when it didn't make the headlines, virtually every week we would file an "Italian Violence Roundup" alongside the coverage of the games. There were also spot stories to file on racist chants and anti-Semitic banners in stadiums. An in-depth report...