Word: lions
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...When the lion is chasing the antelope, he doesn't look back. He has to eat.' ROBERT CHERUIYOT, Kenyan marathoner, on what kept him moving as he won his second consecutive and third overall Boston Marathon on April 16, running...
...salaryman has followed the Seibu Lions since he was 8, back when his family lived near the team's stadium in Tokorozawa, a sleepy suburb 40 minutes west of Tokyo by train. Clad in a powder blue Lions jacket, with a Lions towel wrapped around his neck, Koike spends the entire game bobbing like a prizefighter in Seibu's official cheering section, where well-drilled fans in blue and white drum and sing personalized anthems every time a Lion comes to bat. One player is missing though--superstar pitcher Daisuke Matsuzaka, who left for the Boston Red Sox this...
...life centerpiece, it was more like paparazzi time. But this year, under the helm of Robert Storr, former curator at New York's Museum of Modern Art, the serious appraisal of art should win out. And for Australian artists, there's the best chance yet of a coveted Golden Lion or best-pavilion prize...
...appeal. In an analogy to one of the stories the class had just read, the senior requested accommodation for one or more of the major course assignments because of how they coincided with the deadline of her thesis. The assigned story, “Yvain, the Knight of the Lion,” tells of a knight who must vanquish a giant in time to save a damsel that same day. “The knight has a time management problem,” said Samantha M. Waters ’07, another thesis writer in the class, Literature...
...lion of liberal causes—a Pulitzer prize winner before his 30th birthday—surveyed the audience...