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...contested match-up. A full 31 minutes of play could not separate the two teams. With only seconds left on the clock, the game-winner finally came—for ULV— dropping the Crimson, 8-7. For the last 22 minutes of regulation, neither team managed to mount a lead larger than one goal. The tension between the two teams would eventually come to a head, the question was:when? In a race to score, the Leopards (8-6) came out on top thanks to senior Justin Haas. As regulation drew to a close, ULV mounted a counterattack...
...error occurred while processing this directive] priced accommodation in adjoining inns known as shukubo, and cost-conscious travelers - as well as those seeking an interesting alternative to hotels - would do well to book a night in one. The monasteries and temple precincts of Honshu's sacred mountains, such as Mount Koya, Mount Shosha and Mount Hiei, all provide lodgings (Mount Koya alone has more than 50 shukubo), as do the hillside temples surrounding the ancient capitals of Kyoto and Nara, where well-trodden pilgrim trails make finding shukubo relatively easy. Levels of comfort vary. In many shukubo, a thin futon...
...Engyoji, tel: (81-79) 266 3240, are rather less grand but pleasant nonetheless, simply furnished with a futon and an urn of green tea. There is no dawn ceremony but private meditation sessions can be arranged. RENGEJO-IN: This beautiful temple, tel: (81-73) 656 2233, is located atop Mount Koya - a place of pilgrimage for over a thousand years, home to Japan's oldest Buddhist sect (the Shingon-shu) and a World Heritage Site. You can reach it via a 90-minute train ride from Osaka, followed by a cable-car ascent. The 48-room shukubo is famous...
...Weber who persuaded the photographer Alfred Stieglitz to mount a Picasso show in 1911 at Stieglitz's pioneering 291 Gallery in New York City. That exhibition, Picasso's first in the U.S., included at least some of his newest Cubist images. For budding American modernists like Arthur Dove and Marsden Hartley, it was a first glimpse of work that would transform their own. Later the inexhaustible Stuart Davis came across Picasso's work and likewise reunderstood himself. In the 1920s Davis saw the broad, sharp-edged, irregularly shaped planes of color in some of Picasso's later Cubist work...
...Crimson she never pressed any charges against Thomas and asked Sprague to dismiss the case. Initial reports stated that an inebriated Thomas strangled her with one hand, and then “suddenly lifted her and drove his knee into her chest.” She was brought to Mount Auburn Hospital, where she was treated for injuries including “a large welt across [the victim’s] lower back.”But the victim met with the district attorney July 26 and gave a different story, saying that “she wished this whole...