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...season, full of highlights and accomplishments, came to a close for the three Harvard seniors, eliciting tears of joy from all the members of the team...
...It’s just a joy being able to play with my teammates on the court,” Lippert says. “I’m very blessed to have these opportunities and to be put in situations where I am able to succeed...
...interspersing the present with the past, “No Distance Left to Run” places the focus squarely on this healing process, on how the bitterness of the past turned into the joy of last summer. Even when the group is talking of their absolute lows, such as when a visibly moved Albarn explains how “Beetlebum” describes other people’s (and presumably his) experiences with heroin, right around the corner is another gig or interview of the band once again enjoying themselves. Though this focus on redemption could have been cheesy...
Desperation deforms judgment, and not just among victims. Thus we meet missionary Laura Silsby and her flock, who in the face of so much suffering set out from Boise, Idaho, with a trailer full of children's clothes and a vow to help Haiti's orphans "find healing, hope, joy and new life in Christ." "Our hearts were in the right place," she insisted, but her head was somewhere else entirely, and they all wound up in jail. We know a bit more now about her regard for the niceties of law and protocol: unpaid debts, civil lawsuits, a house...
...long as people play football, there will be football-related injuries. We should do what we reasonably can to keep players safe, but life is full of risks, and if you live in fear of them or try to mitigate them out of existence, you take the joy out of living--or, in this case, the game...