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...clouds burst, the crowds gather. It's an hour before the kick-off of Kolkata's biggest sporting event and the rain keeps pouring. The pitch at the cavernous Salt Lake Stadium is now little better than a mud pit, pockmarked by spreading pools of brackish water and streaks of brown slush. Were this a cricket match, officials would have canceled proceedings and sent fans home. But this is football in the most football-crazy city in India: over 100,000 boisterous Calcuttans fill the divided sides of the stadium, one half festooned in the maroon and green of Mohun...
...Massa wasted no time broadcasting Kuhl's vote in the district, which stretches from near Lake Ontario to the Pennsylvania border. The next night at a house party in Naples, New York, he told supporters how Kuhl's vote represented the worst of the Republican Party: solidarity with special interest groups and a rigid refusal to stray from the party line...
...fourth.” Kovacs competed as skipper in A-division with senior crew Elyse Dolbec, and sophomore skipper Drew Robb and junior crew Lauren Brants completed Harvard’s weekend lineup. Although the temperature proved to be more than hospitable for the Crimson on the small Medford lake, inconsistent wind conditions added difficulty to the races. “It was a little bit of everything,” Brants said of the weather. Lucky for the Crimson, the team was able to overcome those difficulties and come together to end the weekend with a top finish...
...draw, I was told—what tens of thousands of people were coming to see—as the “movie on the water”: a two hour screening on a sheet of water created by continuously shooting jets in the middle of the lake...
...more, who have been cast into exile for offenses as trivial as acting out or watching forbidden movies. Dubbed the "Lost Boys," - exiled boys far outnumber girls - they live in low rent apartments or on the street, in the backs of cars in St. George, or Salt Lake City, even as far away as Las Vegas and Phoenix. They live rough-and-tumble lives, sometimes getting in minor trouble for drinking and fighting, others falling deep into tragedy and drug addiction, some even work as prostitutes on the Vegas strip...