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Akpan started the Crimson off on a positive note with an early fierce charge toward the goal at 8:18. He effortlessly twisted and maneuvered through the opposition??s defensive midfielders and fullbacks with reckless ease, chipping a perfect goal into the bottom right corner...
...ones often overlooked by the majority of people. Read the soccer coverage in newspapers—the emphasis tends to be on the flamboyance of attacking midfielders and the glory of the goal-scorers, rather than those players whose style revolves around keeping possession and breaking up the opposition??s moves.In the case of talented sophomore defender-cum-midfielder Lizzy Nichols, however, it is a case of no guts, no glory—an attitude that has seen her selected as part of a 34-player pool for the United States U-20 Women’s National...
...last interviews she gave before her death, twinkling in front of the camera with wry humor. Ancient ranchers with weather-lined faces straight out of “No Country for Old Men” talk about the changes they’ve seen. Dunn also interviews the opposition??most notably a local lobbyist for Freeport, an international development company. Throughout the interview the man’s disgruntled twang is heard while the camera focuses on his hands doing something with ominously sharp and shiny instruments. Gradually the viewer realizes he is constructing and painting models...
...scrutiny. Here the incorrectness of the invasion of Iraq is admitted, but a select cabal of criminals is held responsible. Yet not only does this willfully ignore the bipartisan makings of the occupation itself (from Democrats’ sanctioning the initial invasion to their pithy, insipid “opposition?? today), it demonstrates a deep-seated refusal to engage the historical role of the Democratic Party in fashioning imperial policy. In the specific context of Iraq, one only has to point to the murderous regime of sanctions in place from 1991-2003, which were conducted with the active...
...encouraging for the opposition, but they remained skeptical about the country’s long-term democratic prospects. Sunday night marked the defeat of proposed constitutional amendments that would have granted socialist President Hugo Chavez greater control, including the constitutional power to remain president for life. This is the opposition??s first major electoral victory since Chavez came to power. Federico Andrés Ortega Sosa, a second-year student at the Kennedy School of Government from Caracas, Venezuela, said the election results might signal “a momentum shift,” since the Venezuelan president...