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...Federation doesn’t even give their women’s program enough money to schedule friendlies or training matches. Yet there, they are showing a global audience how to truly play the game. Our system does a poor job of finding “diamonds-in-the-rough.” And the future doesn’t look so kind to our women either...
...beautiful Motown sample, and you remember that Outkast is very, very good. Then the drums kick in and the track turns into boilerplate, albeit well-executed, Southern rap, and you remember that this isn’t actually an Outkast song. The cognitive dissonance between sweet music and rough lyrics in the last three quarters is mildly disturbing, but start the song over and everything’s alright again. Grade: B Kanye West – “Stronger” Even though the song it samples is only three years old; even though the idea of sampling...
...helicopter is that it combines their worst features too. The V-22 can't glide as well as an airplane, and it can't hover as well as a helicopter. If a V-22 loses power while flying like an airplane, it should be able to glide to a rough but survivable belly-flop landing. Its huge, 19-ft.-long (5.7 m) rotors are designed to rip into shreds rather than break apart and tear into the fuselage. But all bets are off if a V-22 is flying like a helicopter, heading in or out of a landing zone...
...improve on last year’s 11-14 mark. The Crimson came out strong in 2007 with two straight victories to start the season. Over the last week, however, Harvard has dropped some tournament matches and a league match to Dartmouth. “The last weekend was rough,” said Kocurek. “But it’s necessary to sort out your kinks. When you play teams that really challenge you, you learn what you need to work on.” After four games last weekend, the Crimson has the entire week...
...week now, thousands of Buddhist monks have taken to the streets across major towns in Burma, protesting both crippling fuel hikes ordered by the junta in August and the rough treatment by government security forces of clergy members who had dared to speak out earlier this month. So far, the country's top brass, an earlier generation of whom masterminded a brutal crackdown on protesters back in 1988 that resulted in hundreds of deaths, has not ordered its soldiers to fire...