Word: play
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Jason Luzak and Peter Cochran, the two freshman starters on the Harvard men's soccer team, have been selected to play on national teams...
Cochran, the Ivy League Rookie of the Year and a second-team All-Ivy selection, was one of 24 players chosen for the under-23 national team, which often serves as a feeder for the upcoming Olympic team. Luzak was picked to play on the under-20 national team...
Only two seniors, Co-Captains Jon Bernheimer and Jim Masland, play in the top nine. The two veterans provide the necessary on-court and off-court support. Bernheimer, described by teammate Jeremy Fraiberg as "diligent, committed, and intense," leads by example; he plays, he trains, and he works with unrivaled intensity...
...attitudes in a crucial time and place (Atlanta, circa 1948-73). What you will not find in this marvelously understated movie is overtly inspirational comments on that subject, broad sentimentality or the slightest pomposity about its own mission. In other words, Alfred Uhry's adaptation of his Pulitzer-prizewinning play aspires more to complex observation of human behavior than to simple moralism about it. Precisely because it has its priorities straight, it succeeds superbly on both levels...
...NATO -- still has a major role to play in Europe, especially before more sweeping arms-control agreements come into force and before a new political equilibrium is established on the Continent...