Word: czechs
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...fellow Harvard man would be back to this level again, but it seemed he had taken a first step—he had arrived at the top stage.Fast forward to 2006, and Blake is there again. This time, I watch him play the twelfth-seeded, hard-hitting Czech Thomas Berdych. Many expect this to be a tough match, that the Czech is really a better hardcourt player than Blake. James loses eight games in his straight set victory.On Thursday night, I’m at my aunt’s house in White Plains, N.Y., watching as Blake...
...overbearing puppet master. If I sat absolutely quietly and wrote lyrical verse about tree-tops, I was peachy. My father was hell-bent on bettering my lot - and by extension our family's lot." But, continues Quart in Hothouse Kids, "I was far too young for the Czech films and the difficult novels I was coerced to digest. My father's plan succeeded on one level, of course. I became a hothouse...
...Teachers in many of the nations that outperform the U.S. on student achievement tests--such as Japan, Denmark and the Czech Republic--tend to assign less homework than American teachers, but instructors in low-scoring countries like Greece, Thailand and Iran tend to pile...
...There's a long, slow middle passage, where Steve hides out with Anne's sturdy, Czech-American parents out in the heartland. But the movie smartly yanks itself back down into the murk, and ends with a sensational shot, in which the camera peers down a four-story stairwell, and Walt falls from the top flight, his body hitting and caroming off each railing. (Give a little wow of appreciation for the stunt crew...
...your behind. The result: when the refs cracked down, there was a lot of whining about the loss of "old school" hockey, but once everyone got used to the fact that the rules would be enforced, the game improved. Scoring increased because the game's stars, such as the Czech Republic's Jaromir Jagr and Russia's Alexander Ovechkin, were free...