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...Crimson’s offensive charge. He drew first blood with a shorthanded goal at 13:07 in the first period to end the back-and-forth action between the two teams. After sophomore defenseman Ian Tallet was sent to the penalty box for roughing, Harvard was forced to retreat to penalty-kill mode. Taylor intercepted the puck at about mid-rink before skating down the left wing and slipping it behind Fisher for a shorthanded tally. Quinnipiac managed to even the score halfway through the second period. The Bobcats’ first attempt on goal was deflected wide...
...equipment, poker chips, and plastic train sets. The personality of this now-sparsely furnished room has changed entirely: the print is more lightly exposed, as one would imagine the room to be after the thousands of pages that insulate it from the outside world are removed. No longer a retreat for intellectual hibernation, the room has become the picture of responsibility. The room series is indicative of Davey’s larger oeuvre, which primarily includes photographs of the everyday, the unremarkable. These otherwise mundane objects are imbued with a certain psychological importance in Davey’s photographs...
...loved it. But now is the time for me to be in a place of quiet to write and research. Not a monastic life--because I don't have the gift of being able to deny myself like that--but a life of peace. I live out here in retreat...
...with our poor over drug use might be better spent on treatment or education or job training, or anything else that might begin to restore those places in America where the only economic engine remaining is the illegal drug economy. It doesn't resolve the myriad complexities that a retreat from war to sanity will require. All it does is open a range of intricate, paradoxical issues. But this is what we can do - and what we will...
...dust storms that whip across craggy brown slopes and sun-chapped faces. Glaciers are the sole source of fresh water for the Buddhist farmers who make up more than 70% of the population in this rugged range between Pakistan and China. But rising temperatures have seen the icy snow retreat by dozens of feet each year - to find evidence of global warming, the farmers simply have to glance up from their fields and see the rising patches of brown where, once, all was white. Knowing no alternative, they pray harder for rain and snow...