Word: lofting
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Throughout the afternoon, the Big Green used an identical corner set-up that was successful every time. Lindsay Gossage inserted the ball to stick stop Averill Doering. Rebekka Stucker would then loft the ball into the upper left corner of the goal...
...Ghia is believed to have looted over the past three decades. Since news of the arrest was made public, three collectors have written to the police, offering to return stolen items they say they purchased in good faith. But most of the stolen treasures, still hidden inside a Manhattan loft or a Hong Kong boardroom, will probably never be recovered. "There is plenty," Shrivastava mourns, "that has been lost forever." --With reporting by Bu Hua/Xi'an, Simon Crittle/New York, Meenakshi Ganguly/Jaipur, Aparisim Ghosh/London and Robert Horn/Bangkok
...Pass By, tel: (86-10) 8403 8004. But what it lacks in keg care, it more than makes up for in setting and service. Nestled in a lane off Ping'an Dadao near the central lakes, the intimate courtyard bar and caf? offers a smoke-free wing, a carpeted loft and a sunny patio. The owner's pet pig makes the rounds between the Tibetan-chic d?cor with a knowing smirk on its snout...
...Department was not as impressed as I was.” Still, the mood is cozy. “Up here is much different from downstairs,” Strack says. “Most nights, if it’s working well, it’s the best loft party you’ve ever been...
...While the storytelling is evocative, the collection's focus on writers complaining about the impossibility of finding a decent plumber in their quaint hamlet starts to grate. TIME Asia's editor Karl Taro Greenfeld offers an antidote with his claustrophobic account of a college semester spent in a Parisian loft, gambling his monthly allowance on games of Nerf basketball with a trio of dissolute Americans and an Argentine kleptomaniac. Scoured of romanticism, his story dwells on the conflict that comes with being a resident outsider: a fear of stepping into the unknown combined with the shame that comes from seeking...