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...hurting, wondering why I didn’t train on any hills at all—another no-no—and alternately thinking of my roommate’s main motivational tool for me (a hideous evil laugh at my attempt to do this) and the strange characters who keep passing me on the roadway...
...seniors have seen the program in some of its darkest times, enduring a hideous a 0-8-1 ECAC start their sophomore season, and had to adjust to a new coaching regime halfway through their tenure. But the Crimson has righted its ship. The consolation match-up this year very well might be the championship game next year, since Dartmouth is not losing any integral player to graduation...
...name Taliban means "seekers of knowledge." Since they seized control of most of Afghanistan in 1996, the clique of fundamentalist zealots who go by that name have eliminated virtually all human rights within their reach. Their proscriptions run from the hideous to the farcically pious--though farce itself, in today's Afghanistan, can and does kill. At one extreme, most girls are denied any education: Afghanistan is the most misogynistic country in the world. At another, a man who trims his beard commits a jailable crime...
...There's a hideous absurdity, of course, in the realization that their deaths are actually preventable. There are drugs available, after all, that can contain the disease and prevent it from stealing lives, complicated cocktail treatments developed by brilliant scientists that can make AIDS manageable...
Restaveks who do get away have grim stories to tell. A young man recently went to Romer with hideous burns from an iron, a punishment by his West Palm Beach, Fla., "host" family whenever he didn't press their clothes correctly. Aside from losing their childhood, restaveks suffer separation from their own families. At the Maurice Sixto shelter in Port-au-Prince, Ania Derice, 18, recalls how her parents in rural central Haiti, who couldn't afford to feed and clothe her, sent her to a house in Port-au-Prince to be a restavek. When Ania was 12--after...