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...tackling abilities that got Williams recognized on Saturday afternoon. Harvard took a 20-17 lead in the fourth, but the Leopards were threatening on a third-and-one from the Crimson 10 when Williams teamed up with junior linebacker Glenn Dorris to force the interception that will haunt DiPaolo over the course of the next week. Dorris was not baited by Lafayette’s play action and stuck to the senior quarterback, nearly taking him down for a 10-yard loss. DiPaolo managed to get the ball off, but the receiver was wearing crimson, not white. Williams jumped...
...Jesus’ Son,” he demonstrated his mastery of short fiction. In stories such as “Emergency,” in which a man comes into an ER with a hunting knife buried in his forehead, Johnson illustrated a genius for images that would haunt and nag well after the actual book was put down. He proved he had an almost instinctive understanding of language, forming sentences that were simultaneously lyrical and rough. They seemed to read themselves; the words leapt off the page and hovered in the air. When Johnson turns his attention...
...young monk who had suffered a deep gash on the head while escaping from a monastery raid told me the monk had later fled for the provinces. He believes the attack on the clergy of this devoted Buddhist nation and the imprisonment of monks will come back to haunt the junta. "We believe that if you do good, you receive good," he says. "If you do bad things you receive bad things. This will be the same for the military...
...golden-domed Sule Pagoda in downtown Rangoon. Facing us are hundreds of soldiers and riot police, who look on edge as they finger their assault rifles. The protesters, mostly ordinary Burmese clad in sarongs and sandals, appear undaunted, even jubilant. Defiantly, they chant a Buddhist mantra whose melody will haunt me for days...
...want to create an international incident by firing on a scruffy-looking Brit, and that my presence will protect the protesters. She will soon be proved terribly wrong. But for the moment, the protesters appear undaunted, even jubilant. They are chanting a Buddhist mantra whose melody will haunt me for days to come...