Word: helling
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That brashness didn’t always pay off for Harvard. Three different players—Lobach, Fritz and Ara—received ejections when all hell broke loose in the Crimson’s 3-1 setback against Loyola Marymount. Harvard’s extraordinary depth made a contest out of the team’s next match against Boston College, but there was only so much the Crimson could do with its two leading scorers and best defender on the sidelines. Harvard lost, 3-2, and the Crimson didn’t recover in the national rankings...
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...leave?the island was Russian writer Anton Chekhov, who came in 1890 to study life in the penal colony. After finishing his book The Island?a Journey to Sakhalin, Chekhov remarked, "I have seen Ceylon, and it is heaven, and now I have seen Sakhalin, and it is hell." Despite his stinging account, the people of Sakhalin have a lasting affection for the playwright and his introduction of the island to the world. His likeness vies with Lenin's on monuments throughout Sakhalin's capital, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk...
...thing is, wars are rarely fought over dumps. Nepal's countryside, now being made a hell by vicious, marauding Maoists, is simultaneously a picture of bucolic paradise, rivaled perhaps only by Afghanistan's northern mountains in springtime. Cambodia's civil war raged against a backdrop of some of the world's most stunning architecture?Angkor Wat and its surrounding Khmer temples?while the battlefields where 65,000 people have died in two decades in northern Sri Lanka are lush jungles of palms and ponds alive with kingfishers, green parrots and black and yellow longtails. Kashmir in May?as the snow...
...riot “just for the hell of it,” Peterson recalls, “a spring riot over nothing of importance...