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With the countryside in a state of undeclared civil war, an umbrella opposition coalition called the Group of 57 organized numerous national strikes and demonstrations. The aim of the protests, they said, was to dislodge or reform a government that has repeatedly violated Haiti's new constitution. At the height of the protests this summer, the day was rare when the ramshackle boulevards of Port-au-Prince were not blocked by barriers of flaming tires. Each day, as the sun slipped in the sky and the air grew cooler, bands of boys played soccer around the debris. By evening...
...little intimidated by their height," Forman said. "They were blocking and hitting really well. But the first set was our best...
With the Ivy League opponents coming up next weekend, Lem hopes to make some adjustments. Because of Harvard's lack of height--the starters average 5'6"--Lem is looking to get quicker sets to keep taller opponents flat-footed...
...sacrifice; or a row of clay vessels as dense and grand as architecture, ritually arranged as though on an altar. Perhaps the most remarkable of all, usually exhibited at the National Gallery in London, is the life-size kneeling figure of St. Francis in Meditation, painted at the height of Zurbaran's career, in the late 1630s. This is not the St. Francis of earlier legend, warbling to the birds of Assisi about Brother Sun and Sister Moon. Spanish Catholicism in the 16th and 17th centuries invented a new St. Francis, a death-haunted monk whose images would force...
...really missed [Suzie Tapson's] height and her hitting at the net," Lem added. Tapson suffered a sprained-ankle in practice...