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...three-point range blocked by Lillis, but a travelling call on the Great Danes’ guard gave the ball back to Harvard. Goffredo got more separation on his next look, several feet behind the line at the top of the key, but his shot hit off the front iron. The Crimson’s final chance came on junior guard James Lambert’s desparation attempt from well behind the arc, but Lillis, who finished with four rejections on the night, rose up to knock down the shot once more as the buzzer expired...
...least in part a response to the communists’ continued efforts of insurrection against Pinochet’s government. The 1986 assassination attempt—killing five of Pinochet’s bodyguards—is an indication of the gravity of the communist threat. Sometimes the iron fist is a necessary prerequisite to peace, order, and even freedom—an unfortunate reality of human affairs. One has to look no further than the now very visible disaster in Iraq that followed the deposing of Saddam Hussein for an example of what can happen without...
Victorian attitudes to children were famously forbidding. That might partly explain why London's Museum of Childhood is little heard of by most visitors to the capital. Then there's the building itself - a red-brick and iron shed, an unloved[an error occurred while processing this directive] remnant of the Victoria and Albert Museum in Kensington that in 1872 was rebuilt in Bethnal Green as a cultural outpost for the museum's overspill, particularly its collection of dolls and children's costumes. Some of the gloom and an aura of worthiness persisted even after its rebirth as the Museum...
...hours on end to craft the perfect slipper. When she’s done, the armored hoof is ready for showtime.Cloos, a former Harvard physics concentrator and equestrian team captain, is known in eastern New York as a farrier. Laymen often call her a blacksmith, but while blacksmiths forge iron into many shapes and forms, farriers devote their lives to fitting shoes and attending to the health of the horse’s hoof.“A blacksmith does artistic things with metal. I just make shoes for horses’ feet. Unfortunately, I don’t have...
...Along with the iron fist, Pinochet epitomized another specter that still haunts Latin America: a dogmatic mind. If it continues, the region's addiction to ideological governance - the chronic oscillation between right-wing and left-wing - will keep it from entering the 21st century as surely as Pinochet and leftist despots like Fidel Castro kept it from entering the 20th. Chileans seemed to indulge the old habits Sunday night as Pinochet backers and haters squared off in the streets. But perhaps the reason that Chile's democratic institutions are still more the exception than the rule in South America today...