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...Keating reflects. “But I’ve always liked using stick skills and shooting the ball, so I think it was a smart transition to put me up there.”Although the idea came as a surprise to the junior, Keating kept an open mind and has reaped the benefits. After two moderately productive seasons at midfield, in which Keating notched 14 points over seven starts, the newly-minted forward has exploded in her third year, shredding opposing defenses like a veteran.“[Keating] has brought a lot of energy and intensity...
...Mountains Beyond Mountains”] who had an apartment there. Deo told the outlines of his story to my wife, and as we were driving away, my wife told me a fragment of the story that he told her, and it sat in the back of my mind for several years.I was drawn to him, partly. He’s really charming, and there’s an ineffable quality to him—a straight warmth and enthusiasm. And there was a sense of someone who had been wounded. This is in part a story about courage and determination...
...with a dangling belt, recently ripped from her boyfriend’s chinos. Tickle, tickle, whack, whack. “I think J is going to stay over tonight,” she would mutter, while amorously rocking the rickety bunk. “You don’t mind sleeping?...
...decades. The creamy notions of postpartisan cooperation - poured abundantly over Obama's presidential campaign a year ago - have curdled into suspicion and feelings of helplessness. Trust is a toxic asset, sitting valueless on the national books. Good faith is trading at pennies on the dollar. The old American mind-set that Richard Hofstadter famously called "the paranoid style" - the sense that Masons or the railroads or the Pope or the guys in black helicopters are in league to destroy the country - is aflame again, fanned from both right and left. Between the liberal fantasies about Brownshirts at town halls...
...waves." Mizrahi wasn't the only designer to favor impractical headgear that season. That same week, designer Narciso Rodriguez sent one model down the runway in a cow-print-camouflage outfit accessorized with a bucket over her head. British Vogue described the ensemble as something that "put one in mind of Fat Albert...