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...games have been regularly cancelled or delayed at the QRAC because of equipment problems.” Spanos said she had to drive to the Malkin Athletic Center (MAC) to replace the Quad facility’s one flat volleyball. The manager of Recreational Services in the Athletic Department, Jake Olkkola, said that the situation would change soon. “I have a plan right now to get new equipment up to the QRAC for many different sports,” he said. “Everything will be replenished.” The renovated QRAC reopened last month...
...subject of violence. As it follows the action of the first Gulf War, we sense chaos indirectly. We see bomb blasts reflected through windows; we watch smoke rise above the bodies of Iraqi civilians, recently burnt off-screen. This violence is filtered through the eyes of narrator Anthony Swofford (Jake Gyllenhaal), the everyman U.S. Marine, or “jarhead,” whose war autobiography this movie adapts. While training, Swofford is selected to join an elite scout unit, and he trades in his girlfriend for a sniper rifle and Peter Sarsgaard, his increasingly unstable spotter. Sergeant Siek (Jamie...
...When they finally meet the enemy long-range bombs have already burned them to various grotesque crisps. Tony (Jake Gyllenhaal) and his buddy, Troy (a wonderfully cool, emotionally hidden Peter Sarsgaard), who are snipers, come close to actually doing something-killing a pair of Iraqi officers holed up in an airfield control tower-but at the last moment one of their own senior officer swans in and countermands the orders. In short, Swofford and his unit have nothing to show for the half year they spend in the eye of Desert Storm...
...second period, Ornelas and Chris Hussey scored before RPI tallied three goals in the final 5:38 to go up 5-4. Jake Morrisette, Oren Eizenman and Brad Farynuk got the goals...
...trite as it might be. The ironic witticisms are amusing, for a few chapters. There is considerable emotion, consciously restrained quite subtle. Experts may pronounce the book a masterpiece of sex-frustration psychology. But the reader is very much inclined to echo a remark that is one of Jake's favorites and, presumably Author Hemingway's too, "Oh, what the hell...