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...offense will miss second team all-Ivy setter Mindy Jellin and her 11.52 assists per game. Jellin was the lone senior, captain and steadying force in last year’s breakout season...
...first sign of the latter was a long and honking traffic jam?not the kind of thing you expect in up-country Kerala. But as I leaned out of the window, the source of the disruption became clear. For there on the road in front of us was a lone, enraged bull elephant...
...with a sprawling convoy of cars and buses, back up the hill. Craning my neck to keep the behemoth in view for as long as possible, the last thing I saw before we rounded the corner to safety was an archetypal drama of David and Goliath. Like the famous lone protester of Tiananmen facing off a Chinese army tank, there stood one brave lunatic, arm outstretched and brandishing a rock as the elephant lumbered mightily towards him. As far as I know the man survived. But as soon as we got off the mountain, I badly needed...
...North Korea nuclear crisis. The country had just dropped its insistence on one-on-one talks with the U.S. and had accepted Washington's demand that the two principal protagonists be joined at the table by South Korea, Japan, China and Russia. "In the past it was the lone voice of the United States speaking clearly about this," Bush told reporters on August 1. "Now we'll have other parties who have got a vested interest in peace on the Korean Peninsula." But as the six-way talks got underway in Beijing, Wednesday, optimists were hard to find. The best...
Betsy placed two red roses on her husband's coffin before it was loaded into the hearse, led by a police car and trailed by a lone bagpiper. The wind was blowing, the sidewalks were full, and the air was silent, except for the pipes. It would have been Chris Coffin's 52nd birthday. --With reporting by Amanda Bower/Bethlehem, Nathan Thornburgh/Kennebunk and Simon Robinson/Baghdad