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...story is told by one of four protagonists who live in the Russian wilderness. A Chechnya vet, he is now a sniper guard for the local nuclear plant. His job is to shoot first. His friends Hotdog and Pepsi, parking-lot attendants, make their living stealing gas from cars. Natasha has slept with two of the three and now runs an international Internet mail-order bride service called Amour Transit, patronized by the fsb (former kgb) and foreign-intelligence services. It's an empty existence of anger and boredom punctuated only by what's on television that night. "Those...
...Kohl Center in Madison. The Crimson, winners of just one game in its first eight contests, took on a Badgers squad that had won 10 straight and was a perfect 7-0 at home. Streaking Wisconsin (11-2) bested Harvard 86-66 behind aggressive transition offense and sharp-shooting guards Janese Banks and Jolene Anderson, who were a combined 17-of-23 from the floor and scored 46 points. The Crimson (1-8) put forth its best total offensive effort of the season, but spotty zone defense in the first half led to three Wisconsin three-pointers in the first...
...began to change entirely. By drawing intimate portraits of the ensuing lives of five of his fellow alumni-all members of Nanjing University's class of 1982-Pomfret shows just how sweeping that transformation was. One of his classmates, who tortured fellow villagers as an 11-year-old Red Guard in the 1960s, ends up as a biochemistry entrepreneur in the business of extracting enzymes from urine. Another rises through the communist ranks by spouting whatever Party line is correct at any given time, thus enjoying a life of chauffeured Audis and plentiful shark's fin soup. Their stories, rife...
...second half, the guards picked up where the big men left off, as Housmann nailed two threes on back-to-back possessions, followed by a running three from captain Jimmy Goffredo to first tie the game at 48-48. After Lin’s running lay-up, sophomore guard Andrew Pusar’s coast-to-coast steal turned lay-up put Harvard up 52-50, and, from that point on, the team never looked back...
...Crimson editorial board. “It is incumbent on the UC leadership to find ways of providing these sorts of services more effectively than in the past.” But the debate will most likely not be resolved under the council’s current guard. “The new UC leadership needs to figure out for themselves how they want to tackle [the shuttle issue],” said outgoing UC President John S. Haddock ’07. “For shuttles to be successful, the UC would have to be very creative...