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...example, in last year’s Frozen Four semifinal, Brown defeated Minnesota in an extremely rough contest. In a USCHO.com sidebar, both Brown coach Digit Murphy and Frozen Four MVP Kristy Zamora endorsed checking in women’s hockey...
Just as likely to wield metal wires as he is gorgeous brocades, Watanabe deconstructs even his more traditional offerings--like beautifully tailored jackets--with unraveling hems and rough seams. "It's Scarlett O'Hara meets A Clockwork Orange," says Gene Krell, international fashion director for Vogue Japan and Vogue Korea. "Fashion is meant to advance the notion of what fashion is. And he does...
...concerned that European resistance could nourish American antiwar sentiment. At the gathering of global elites last week in Davos, Switzerland, Richard Haass, the State Department's director of policy planning, was sent into a packed session to answer questions about whether war was inevitable or necessary. After a rough ride, he acknowledged Bush "has yet to persuade the international community" that military action is needed...
...biggest surprise of all is that they are not even soldiers; they are spies, part of the CIA's rough and ready, supersecret Special Operations Group (SOG). Until fairly recently, the CIA, in an effort to clean up a reputation sullied by botched overseas coups and imperial assassination attempts, had shied away from getting its hands dirty. Until about five years ago, it focused instead on gathering intelligence that could be used by other parts of the government. Before that, traditional CIA officers, often working under cover as U.S. diplomats, got most of their secrets from the embassy cocktail circuit...
...relatively easy to do what I wanted." He consulted mo, an ancient divination system involving dice and beads, to make decisions about casting and shooting schedules and was careful to assure his lay Tibetan actors that they wouldn't suffer karmic retribution if the script called for them to rough up a monk for making too much noise during France vs. Brazil. The Cup picked up awards at the Pusan, Munich and Toronto film festivals and, according to the New York Times, established Khyentse Norbu as "a born filmmaker...