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...nation's recent history. Of all of the amazing growth stories in Asia's economic miracle, South Korea's is probably the most miraculous. In a mere generation, the country transformed itself from an impoverished backwater living on American aid to a globally competitive manufacturer of microchips, cars and flat-screen TVs. Any setback to that progress is taken with grave seriousness. During the 1997 crisis, office workers, too ashamed to tell their families they had lost their jobs, donned business suits each morning only to hide out in the mountainside parks around Seoul. Middle-aged women turned over their...
...years ago, people from Mabini, a small city in the central Philippines, started to leave for Italy to find better-paying jobs. Today, some 70% of the neighborhood is supported by monthly checks from Rome or Milan. Now, Italian-inspired villas crowd the town's hilly streets. There are flat-screen TVs, luxury cars and pricey Toblerone chocolates. But, as Florian De Jesus, a social worker in the area, observes, "In Italy, there are more women...
...that I just had to see this in reality.” Calls for size-16 open-toed sandals and stilts on open lists apparently tend to draw attention. Student performances ranged from a romantic duet of “A Whole New World” by a falsetto, flat-chested Jasmine (albeit, with impeccable makeup) and a shorter-than-average Aladdin, to a quasi-strip tease dance by the emcees and their friend “Chocolate” to the beat of “Discovery Channel.” One lucky audience member even received...
...goal in the fourth to give the Crimson a 6-5 advantage, its first lead of the day.Atkinson and Babic also scored for Harvard, with Atkinson contributing three steals and three assists in the contest. Babic’s goal gave the Crimson a 7-6 edge.Harvard came out flat at the beginning of overtime, as the Crimson failed to score in the first three-minute session and attempted no shots in the second three-minute period. Harvard had two turnovers in two possessions to close out the game...
...goal lead, as Matt Angers-Goulet went top shelf.“When you’re on the road, it’s really important to come out hard,” captain Jimmy Fraser said. “I thought we came out a little flat.”Rolocek responded for the Crimson three minutes later for his first goal of the year, cutting the Engineers lead in half. Harvard would take a 4-3 man advantage thanks to a scrum and a penalty, but RPI goalie Matthias Lange made three saves to preserve the Engineers?...