Word: flare
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...they are and we just don’t show it.” The third frame was yet another example of the Crimson’s untimely lethargic starts. With numerous errors early on, Harvard again found itself in a deficit, down 12-6. The team showed some flare to pull within three at 22-19 on a kill from senior Seamus McKiernan, who posted a double-double with 17 kills and 13 digs. On the whole, however, the team hit a meager .079 and was riddled with service errors in the 30-23 loss...
...He’s playing a new position,” senior Seamus McKiernan said. “He came in and played like a senior, leading the team and playing superbly in the clutch when we needed him.”McKiernan added his own flare with six kills in the third game and 21 overall.“[McKiernan] is our best player,” Crimson coach Chris Ridolfi said. “We need to find a way to get him the ball on a more consistent basis.”As a team, Harvard...
...movie and don’t stick around for long. Near the film’s end, Swofford tells us, “Every war is different. Every war is the same.” The same apparently goes for war movies. Mendes cops the acid-trip flare lights of “Apocalypse Now” and the jittery artillery-flustered shots from “Saving Private Ryan.” But unlike those movies, “Jarhead” does nothing to romanticize war. It never glamorizes violence—mainly because there is very little...
...stopping. "I thought my life after 70 was finished," says Saito, as weathered as a tugboat and as trim as a battleship. "But I could still keep doing things my way, with complete freedom." During his 244-day voyage, the modern-day Ulysses scared off a pirate with a flare gun and subsisted on rations, the occasional flying fish, blood-pressure tablets and rainwater. "It was no problem," he says. "Better than Tokyo city water...
...stomach injuries." Another guide eases nerves by repeating that passengers have nothing to fear, then asks them to pick up their bulletproof vests at the back of bus. He always gets a laugh. Real violence does some-times intrude. When the embers of the Troubles flare up, as they did during loyalist riots last month, the number of gawkers drops off. "But a week later we're pointing out the burn marks on the walls to them," says Lavelle. In that sense, the Troubles tourism mirrors the odd resilience of Northern Ireland's stuttering peace process. Last week, after...