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Those who live in Nizhneimeretinskaya Bukhta felt elated too: they expected good business. The letdown came in January, when the state introduced the "Olympic law" laying out the process governing land confiscation for the Sochi Olympics. In contravention of the provisions of Russia's Land Code, the law stipulates that Sochi confiscation disputes would be resolved in court under abridged procedures that allow the state alone to set the price...
...drawing seemingly obscure details—turning on the heater in a car, a curl of hair on someone’s nape, a remembered lunch—into the foreground, he manages to imbue the characters with a real emotional accessibility.Only two of the 11 new stories are letdowns. “That Room” comes right after Wolff’s old thriller “Bullet in the Brain” and sorely disappoints, precisely because it doesn’t have the subtle simplicity of the other. The latter is rhythmic and nuanced, focusing...
DENVER—Maybe it was the altitude. Or perhaps it was history, a history that motivated Denver to exorcize the demons of the past two years, when the Harvard men’s lacrosse team recorded twin upsets of the Pioneers.Or maybe it was a second-half Crimson letdown and a late Denver surge that propelled the Pioneers (6-4) past Harvard in a 10-9 overtime win on Saturday afternoon in front of 1,480 fans at Peter Barton Lacrosse Stadium in Denver, Colo.It was the third straight loss for the Crimson (4-4) and the final contest...
...loss with a 3-1 win over the Bobcats (20-14-4, 13-9-4 ECAC) in Game 3 of the ECAC quarterfinals. “It was huge for us to come back,” co-captain Mike Taylor said. “We had a letdown after the lopsided win Friday. We played pretty bad on Saturday and we came back and played really well as a team today.”Harvard relied on its strong offensive lines and special-teams play to muscle goals past Quinnipiac’s goaltender, Bud Fisher. Additionally, the team?...
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