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...have some game-time experience, his production has been limited, hauling in two catches for a mere 34 yards. At six-foot-two and 195 pounds, Richards is a perfect blend of size and speed. With his physical attributes, he brings an intangible innate talent many other wide receivers lack. “Levi [Richards] adds a speed element to our offense,” Pizzotti said, also crediting the sophomore’s ability to go after the deep ball, catch the ball in traffic and come down with it, and make plays after the catch.As his high school?...
...exile in India. If this were to happen, he said, “it would take generations for the Tibetan people to forgive the Chinese policies.” But looking ahead to this month’s meeting in Beijing, Gyari was cautiously hopeful. He projected that, for lack of any fundamental differences between the Tibetans and the Chinese, cooperation would eventually lead to a solution in which Tibet self-governance and a stable Chinese society go hand-in-hand. Gyari carefully distinguished self-governance from independence, a goal that the Dalai Lama?...
...Perhaps not, but even the officers admit that their presence is only a short-term fix to an extremely complicated problem - an endemic lack of respect for traditional institutions among a generation of Britons like those loitering on the Craylands Estate. It would be too expensive, not to mention unpleasant, to have police patrolling every square inch of a town like Pitsea. And anyway,what good could they do in the long run, when schools, youth clubs and even families have failed? When the large, hysterical mother of one of the young men stopped by police came running in response...
...This lack of faith in government initiatives runs wide and deep, which partially explains the huge response Teach India has evoked from young professionals like Iyer. Run by the Times of India, one of India's leading English-language dailies, in collaboration with UN Volunteers, the program has already received over 100,000 applications from would-be volunteers and is struggling to accommodate them all. "Such a visionary and large-scale program has only been possible because we've been able to get the media, civil society and corporate sector together," says Adeline Aubry, a former UNV program officer under...
...lack of enthusiasm was not reflected in the auction rooms, which were well attended over the weekend with collectors from throughout the region, including Singapore, China and Indonesia. But Zhao Wuji's "7 Aout 2000" sold for $543,156 - over $44,000 short of Sotheby's low-end estimate of $587,500 - and several pieces, including paintings by star contemporary Chinese artists Zhang Xiaogang and Yue Minjun, went unsold at the modern and contemporary Asian art sale on Oct. 4. Many say the unimpressive results were a combination of already overinflated price estimates and the dismal economy. "Particularly with...