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...devout Buddhist will not even step on the shadow of a monk," says a Rangoon resident. "When a monk approaches, we move aside to let him pass." And so, with soldiers and police still inside Ngwe Kyar Yan, hundreds of local people surround it. "We had no weapons and knew we couldn't compete with the military," a neighbor tells me. "Everyone just wanted to protect the monks." Eventually, with night approaching, the security forces fight their way out with live rounds, killing two people...
Rostropovich went by the nickname "Slava," meaning glory - or, in the translation preferred by the American composer Leonard Bernstein, "possessed by the gods." I knew Slava through my father, Lynn Harrell, who belongs to a generation of cellists that inherited an instrument Rostropovich had changed forever. My memory of our meetings is of Slava's effusive affection: from bear hugs to damp kisses on both cheeks. Everyone he met - hotel workers, the Emperor of Japan, even the Pope - left with wet cheeks. Both with and without his instrument, it seemed, it was his goal to touch as many people...
...Trust Crimson junior forward Evan Harris: the new coach knows what he’s doing. “[Amaker] knows a lot of people on the West Coast,” Harris explains. “He knows so many people everywhere, and all around people knew what he was doing.”With all the traveling, Amaker has a clear picture of what he sees as a Harvard athlete, and from his viewpoint, he may be getting the type of players that he’s after. “That’s what...
...remains complex. Some experts wonder if a tuition-free model would even be a good thing at a place like Harvard, and the effects of the system at tuition-free Olin aren’t what you might expect.Freer Than FreeWhen Marco A. Morales began his college search, he knew very little about what to expect from the process. Morales, an excellent student and dedicated athlete, resided in Mexico and commuted across the border to his all-boys private Catholic high school in San Diego, which he attended for free on financial aid. Poring over guides to college admissions, Morales...
...started noticing that there were sirens everywhere; it was nonstop. I knew it was getting bad when I saw people off in the distance running into a small park to drink from one of the big fountains," Hayes said. "After we were re-routed, I heard one of the spotters using his bullhorn and he just kept yelling, 'Runner down, runner down!,' Inside the tent at the park, it looked like some type of mini-disaster, everyone icing themselves down, looking awful...