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...Connor, wrestling at 149 pounds for the Crimson, dominated the competition, scoring a major decision against Richard Lohr of Northern Colorado, 13-1, and then defeating Tyler Turner of Wisconsin, 6-1. The freshman finished his day with an 8-3 decision over Tommy Owen of Boise State, and improved to 20-4 on the season. Outside of Ogunwole and O’Connor, the Crimson could not get much going. Tri-captain Max Meltzer struggled at 141, and finished 1-2 on the day. Meltzer began the day losing to Kenny Hashimoto of Northern Colorado by fall, and then...
...poet like Owen leading trench charges in World War I seems no more senseless than paratroopers leading humvee convoys in Iraq. But as we look backward at our lost 3,000, it's worth hoping one more time that the ending stanza for the paratroopers today will be better than Owen's. He was killed in action trying to take a canal from German defenses, just one week before the Armistice ended the war for good. He never saw his verse published in a book. War can make poets and war can kill them...
...make poets. The British World War I soldier Wilfred Owen had lived as a minor disciple of literary giants until he was thrust into the abattoir of Europe's cataclysmic war to discover the brutal theme of his art. "Nor is it about deeds, or lands, nor anything about glory, honour, might, majesty, dominion, or power, except War," he wrote. "My subject is War, and the pity of War." The war invested meaning into his words, giving them a dark significance that still evokes heartbreak...
Pixar's latest is among the computer-animation studio's best: the story of a full-of-itself race car (voiced by Owen Wilson) forced to set down roots in a run-down jalopy town full of rural eccentrics like the rube tow truck Mater (Larry the Cable Guy). Not to stomp on Happy Feet or anything, but director John Lasseter, who virtually invented CGI movie wit, smartly rev ups the fun in this, the most stylish car-toon ever...
...Unlike other settlements that came about for similar lawsuits, this was really the first time that a retailer sought to provide some benefit directly back to customers,” said a spokesman for Staples, Owen W. Davis...