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Michael Biega skated the puck up the left boards and centered it to sophomore Alex Killorn, who passed it over to freshman Danny Biega in the center of the slot, but the rookie’s attempt was blocked by the BC defense. And Killorn, who laid up four shots on goal, fired a final shot in the last minute, when Donato took out Carroll for an extra attacker...
...Philip Anschutz's companies. While Anschutz is a noted political conservative, who recently bought the Weekly Standard from Rupert Murdoch and who also owns the San Francisco Examiner and the Washington Examiner, most of Examiner.com's stories seem to have no political leanings. (Contributor Carl Herman, a laid-off California teacher, has the conversation-opening title of nonpartisan Examiner...
Generations of Sogola residents have watched their children fall ill each rainy season, laid low by diarrhea, a disease that kills an astonishing 1.6 million children under 5 every year, according to the World Health Organization...
Ripped from any sense of sympathy or consequence, the reader approaches “2666” as a sort of museum of humanity, with triumph and atrocity laid bare and placed side by side: never equivocated, but inextricable from one another. The novel’s end comes suddenly, without reflection or resolution, as Archimboldi prepares to depart for Santa Teresa—the novel’s first cause. “2666” begins with an epigraph from Charles Baudelaire (“An oasis of horror in a desert of boredom?...
...tactic of moving away from his paramilitary structure and instead using small cells to strike at the structures of power - this is what Umarov is now carrying out," says Andrei Soldatov, a security expert and political commentator in Moscow. In other ways, too, the bomb laid on the tracks of the Neva Express bore the trademarks of Umarov's new approach. As rescue workers sifted through the wreckage, a second explosion at the scene of the bombing injured Russia's chief investigator in the Prosecutor General's office, Alexander Bastrykin, a close ally of Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. "This...