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...really stood out is Christina Kessler not allowing goals in the net.”Kessler’s success has put her name among those of the best goalies in the country, a fate that might have been foreseeable when she committed to Harvard as a highly-touted recruit and Team Canada under-22 selection out of Oakville, Ont. before the 2006-2007 season.“She was certainly, in that recruiting class of goaltenders, the top prospect,” Crimson coach Katey Stone says. “We were excited to have created...
...Nasser Izhiman, a volunteer driver and medic for the Magen David Adom (MDA) ambulance service. "An Arab guy wearing the Star of David on my jacket? Nobody knows what to think." In fact, Arab medics--MDA has 75 Arabs among its 1,500 Jerusalem volunteers but is trying to recruit more--are invaluable. Not only can they help serve East Jerusalem, with its maze of unnamed streets, but they are also indispensable for the city's hermetic ultra-Orthodox (or Haredi) Jews, who cannot accept help from a fellow Jew on the Sabbath. "When three Arabs turn...
...boat with his family at age 12 - have been leading a p.r.-savvy campaign for Vietnam's hearts and minds, ditching anti-communist rhetoric in favor of pro-democracy advocacy and strenuously denouncing violence in favor of peaceful grassroots movements. Viet Tan, founded in 1982, uses mass emails to recruit new members inside Vietnam (it won't say how many) and coordinate them with dissident groups. It raises funds to funnel to sympathizers who hold democracy seminars inside the country. Members seek to convert Vietnamese studying in overseas universities to the cause. "This is not your father's overseas Vietnamese...
...Peter Garrett "Climate change is the greatest challenge we face." Experience: Shadow Climate Change and Environment Minister; former Australian Conservation Foundation head and rock singer A star Labor recruit in 2004, Garrett has disappointed with a series of campaign blunders that could cost him the ministry, but he'll retain appeal among young voters with his rock-star and green-crusader pedigree. Has been accused of going quiet on his convictions in an effort to tone down his radical image...
William Fung has a clear idea of where all this streamlining will lead. "In 10, 20 years, consumers will buy directly from the factory over the Internet," he says. "We want to be the people operating it." The new Fung recruit, meanwhile, already shows some attributes needed in the fast-paced global industry. He has a penchant for fast cars (he zips around in one of his two black souped-up BMW M5s) and air travel (he writes a private blog about his plane trips). "It's good to be here," Terence says. A techie who once...