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...immigration from soccer-mad Latin America, East Asia, and Africa helped the city grow to become the nation’s 50th largest (and counting) by 2000—it never lacked the competition that would help develop Andre’ into a star on the club circuit...
...building and a shutdown of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) servers last Friday. At approximately 4:05 p.m., a fire alarm went off in the Science Center, and the building was quickly evacuated. Electrical power was cut to the server room after an electrical short circuit caused a fire in the power supply unit, FAS Computer Services spokeswoman Elizabeth Hess said in a statement sent via e-mail. Hess could not be reached for comment over the weekend. The fire caused disruption to the FAS e-mail, Web, database, and network services, which were down for several hours...
...remember from geography lessons, rubber is big in Malaysia. But there's a better way to appreciate it besides attending museums and tree-tapping demonstrations, and that's the Malaysian Grand Prix. Scheduled for April 8 at Kuala Lumpur's hyper-modern Sepang Circuit, the tire-scorching event is the second competition in this year's World Formula One Championship, which makes it all the more intriguing. If the much-vaunted first race in Melbourne on March 18 is where the kinks are discovered, then it's in the second race that the real drama begins to unfold. Will world...
...make it in tennis,’” Ko recalls. Homeschooling was hard, she admits.She managed to earn straight A’s but was angry with her parents for making her take classes. She thought it was unfair that most of her friends on the circuit, some of whom were much older than she was, did not have to undergo schooling and were able to spend that extra time on the court. “I have friends that are middle school drop-outs,” Ko says. “You know it?...
...last night to confront the sexism, homophobia and “hyperaggression” that he said features prominently in today’s commercial hip-hop music. In the past year, Hurt’s film on hip-hop has made a tour of the film festival circuit and garnered national media attention. “This film is about hip-hop, but also about manhood, the construction of masculinity, sexism, misogyny, homophobia, corporate media, crass materialism and how it affects all our lives,” said Hurt. “Beyond Beats and Rhymes” features...