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...LUCK OF THE IRISH
...whether Harvard was on the wrong side of destiny, had bad luck, or was simply outplayed, there was just something that didn’t feel right—not only about this game, but about the entire season as well...
...hate to admit it, but in a chain of captivating and enthralling seasons for Harvard, this one—whether intelligently designed by the hockey gods or randomly selected by bad luck and untimely mistakes—was the missing link...
...roustabout life for years before ending up as an auto-rickshaw driver in Bangalore. Syed gave an interview to an Indian paper the week after Slumdog's Oscar victory, saying, "I roamed the streets of Mumbai, knocked on the doors of producers for nearly eight months, but luck did not smile. In 1993, I returned to Bangalore and began life anew. I've three children who are studying." He said he is writing a screenplay and hopes it will get made into a film someday. (See what life is like in a Mumbai slum...
...Bengali name, not the Burmese one that Rohingya are also required to have - and he left Burma two years ago on a crowded wooden boat filled with wannabe migrants. Eventually, the vessel drifted to India's Andaman Islands, from which he and others were repatriated. Would he try his luck abroad again, I asked? The news of the recent boatpeople's experiences in Thailand had reached Arakan. He nodded, bouncing a child on his lap. Then, village elder O Lam Myit spoke. "I am old, so I cannot go," he said. "But for the young, it's worth risking death...