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...hosts dropped the first two games without posting much of a challenge at all.But with its back against the wall the Crimson still found a way to delight the home crowd.“In the first two games everything we did, passing, hitting, blocking, we were afraid to mess up,” Crooks added. “But in the third game [Coach Barbosa] just told us to relax. We knew we were much better than we had been playing.”With the Trojans only needing one more game, sophomore setter Gil Weintraub made a statement...
...some ways this is inevitable. Compared with art's history, which is largely sorted out, the present is always a mess, full of dwarf stars and bit players. Any of-the-moment show is guaranteed to bring those in by the carload. It doesn't help that in some years the Biennial's organizers have had a weakness for the slapdash and infantile, and in others for the most schoolmarmish kind of political correctness...
...Dead altar. But for Yanquis, this tale of a Medellin couple's harrowing odyssey to the U.S., and their hard but often humorous struggle in New York, packs a welcome bonus in the midst of a presidential race: a thoughtful, non-politicized take on America's immigration mess...
...think Margaret Thatcher worried a lot about being too masculine,” she said to laughter. “I’m very collaborative, I often listen to people—all those things could be considered as feminine. But don’t mess with me.”The room burst into laughter and applause as she turned to Pilbeam for a reaction.“Right on, sister,” Pilbeam responded.After the event, some parents expressed dissatisfaction with its short, half-hour duration and the limited time for questions from the audience. Only...
Every presidential campaign is occasionally bedeviled by two things - media firestorms over controversial remarks and egghead policy advisors who stumble naively into a political mess. Dealing with two such flaps in virtually the same week is bad enough. But when two separate media firestorms are caused by two policy advisors, as happened to Barack Obama last week, a campaign has to do some serious damage control - and rethinking...