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...Often, along their way from Eastern and Western Europe, the migrants - sometimes 50 at a time - are herded into safe houses where they must wait for the right conditions to continue their trip. Besides packets of instant noodles and a rice cooker, there's not much in the way of furnishings. "Staying there is the toughest part," says the snakehead. "When you're in the house, it's easy to get depressed because you have time to think about your family and the things that might go wrong." He estimates that 10% of people crack. They are taken...
...career coaching record of 177-138. The Harvard men’s basketball team has never won the Ivy League title or advanced to the NIT. The team’s sole NCAA appearance was in 1946.“If [Amaker] comes in, I’d expect instant toughness. We’re all going to respect him,” forward Evan K. Harris ’09 said. “I feel that might have been a hurdle to overcome if it was a coach...[with a track record] we hadn’t known...
...Your reward for sitting through the logorrheic stretches of the movie is, first, a car crash - which, in the manner of Hong Kong action films, is shown as an instant replay, from four views - and then a long car chase. Here's the set-up: On a film shoot in Tennessee, a stuntwoman (played by Zoe Bell, who was Uma Thurman's double on Kill Bill) hears that 1970 Dodge Challenger, just like the one in Vanishing Point, is for sale. She and her girlfriends visit the peckerwood who has the car, and three of them take...
Amaker carries a 177-138 career record, and would bring instant credibility to a Harvard program that has never won the Ivy League title and that has been to the NCAA tournament just once...
...Other Desperate Situations,” the debut collection of comedic shorts by Simon Rich ’06–’07. From the second-grader who realizes that the Silent Game “isn’t actually fun” to an instant-messaging teenage girl whose “innards R swarming w/2morous growths,” Rich’s young characters expose absurdity with the regrettable wisdom of adulthood.“Ant Farm” is mostly gloomy and almost always hilarious in its take on the absurd, whether that?...