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...Waiting to gain access to the San Jose locker room afterwards, I concluded from the coach’s tirade drifting into the hallway (F-bomb average: 3/sentence) that neither team lacks intensity when it comes to the game they love...
...when the lights came up I remembered that I had gotten such access to cover the expansion Boston Blazers, one of twelve National League Lacrosse teams trying to gain footing in a crowded U.S. sports market. Despite generous helpings of thunder sticks, the few thousand fans below me did not seem to register on the arena’s Noise-O-Meter, causing me to question this device’s accuracy. At the opening faceoff between the Blazers and visiting San Jose Stealth, I looked down with contempt, a spoiled American fan accustomed to nationally-hyped sports action...
...already buy into the seemingly kind words of their professors or the visitors who envy them are smothering the very impetus that got them to Harvard in the first place. During the four-year period students are here, they should work to be as humble and willing to gain academically from others as possible...
...nine specialists and has steadily expanded to include 36 states and the District of Columbia. The job of fielding calls is a stressful one, says McCourt, but the specialists "are very passionate about helping people understand what is available and making sure they are empowered." The HIAS specialists gain insight into which states offer affordable solutions and which states are not a good place to suffer through a major illness. Generally, states in the southeastern United States are the most challenging...
After studying private family archives and public documents, Gregor Schöllgen, professor of contemporary history at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, concluded that Wilhelm Schaeffler, Maria-Elisabeth's brother-in-law, cooperated with the Nazis as necessary for personal gain, but that in this way he was not unlike many small entrepreneurs during the Nazi period. He says there is no evidence that Schaeffler was an enthusiastic Nazi or a supporter of Hitler's plans to annihilate Europe's Jews. What does Schöllgen think there is to the story about the Auschwitz hair? "Based on what we know...