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...Quincy anthem and the turning point in last week’s tournament. Imagine watching the 1980 United States men’s hockey team falling behind the Soviets early in the first period, only to hear the Star Spangled Banner blaring over the sound system at Lake Placid, then scoring 17 goals and ending the Cold War, a la Rocky...
...Cambodia and East Timor. New laws were passed to allow the missions, and the troops never fought: they built roads, water purification systems, and medical clinics. Last year, Tokyo sent 600 troops to Iraq to support Bush's Coalition of the Willing, although they are based in relatively placid Samawah and are protected by Australian and Dutch contingents. In Japan, this is referred to as a process of becoming a "normal" country?one that isn't just focused on manufacturing and corporate profits, or utterly dependent for its safety and diplomacy on its big brother...
...battlefield climax to Kà is merely one of the show's hundred or so impossible epiphanies. A royal barge revolves on a placid sea; a boat rocks wildly and sinks; a woman plunges 70 ft. and is dragged back up; a beach suddenly comes to life with an acrobatic starfish and contortionist crabs; a forest of metal tubes features a giant stick bug, a scorpion and an 80-ft. snake; a tepee turns into a man-powered flying machine; actors scale a sheer cliff, an icy mountain--all onstage...
...syllables. "I gave up explaining years ago," he says, in the gently lyrical interior monologue that makes up Dave King's The Ha-Ha (Little, Brown; 340 pages). By the time we come upon him in thickening middle age, Howie has pretty much given up venturing beyond the placid, meaty enclosure of himself. "Not," he tells us, "is the one word I can dependably force...
Despite this new commitment to the Harvard women’s hockey team, she is still aggressively pursuing her own goals. Hagerman is still currently training for the U.S. National Team. She is spending this week in Lake Placid...