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...beyond captain duties after numerous road bumps came up during this rollercoaster season. After losing co-captain Sam Cross, junior captain Emily Cross, and junior Carolyn Wright, Hagamen not only came out on top, but also brought his team with him.His ability to perform at the highest level and to make those around him better made the victory that much sweeter for his teammates.“Tim is just one of the most remarkable athletes, but more importantly great team members,” said senior epee fencer Jasmine McGlade. “He’s worked...
...that necessarily a bad thing? Isn’t ultra-efficiency the highest marker of human advancement? Finally, men, women, and children around the world are getting the most out of their days. Even leisure is becoming more efficient: Why watch “Grey’s Anatomy” at 9 p.m. on Thursdays when you can either TiVo it or watch it online when you have more time...
...from smoking in bars to scooter riding to selling kitchenware on a street corner. He's right: Neapolitans are famed for breaking picayune laws, but it's the city's major crimes that have been making headlines. Unemployment hovers around 20%, and the murder rate is consistently among the highest in Europe. There were 55 homicides in the first two months of the year--many of them victims of warring factions of the organized-crime syndicate the Camorra. The only good news is that a temporary truce had, as of the day of my arrival, resulted in two murderless weeks...
James Monroe said it this way: "National honor is national property of the highest value." You have to wonder what he would have made of Guantnamo. We keep getting reminders--there was another on March 26, with the first conviction of a Guantnamo detainee--that it remains a place where the national honor is in play, where the U.S. image in the eyes of the world is daily up for grabs...
...Vietnam's highest-profile political case in years, the five defendants were found guilty of "conducting propaganda against the Socialist Republic" after a raucous, half-day trial Friday in which the priest loudly denounced the court as "the law of the jungle." At that point he was hushed up and hustled out to follow the proceedings by loudspeaker in an adjoining room where he eventually heard his sentence: Eight years in prison for helping set up and publicize a small, illegal opposition party, known as the Progression Party...