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...fields. He now makes extra cash taking tourists to the wreckage of his house, located in the shadow of the levees. Purwanto's village flooded last year when the dikes broke, and, although it hasn't been fully inundated yet, most of the people have demolished their homes for scrap and moved on. At present, the village looks like it has been carpet-bombed, with piles of rubble rising out of the greasy water. Purwanto points out an especially large mound: the remains of the town's grandest house. His own more modest home is gone except for the broken...
...this team is really playing for pride. They’re trying to show that Harvard will hustle, scrap, and fight...
...some help from freshman Kyle Fitzgerald. Seeing increased playing time (averaging 11.6 minutes on the year, played 25 against the Tigers), Fitzgerald stepped up his game, getting a clutch offensive board and the put back with 1:04 remaining to bring the Crimson to within two.“Scrapping and clawing,” Amaker said of his team’s inside play. “Sometimes when you scrap and claw and hustle, you’ll be amazed at how many plays go your way.”JEREMY SPOKEIt wasn’t class time...
...theatrical installation called "Sharmanka" (Russian for hurdy-gurdy), Bersudsky began sculpting in Leningrad in the late 1960s. There, out of sight of the authorities, he poured his sarcasm and frustration at the Soviet Union's dead hand on artistic and cultural freedom into giant, busy works built of scrap iron and wooden carvings such as the precarious Pisa Tower - a collection of Jewish figures struggling frantically to keep their balance - or Noah's Ark, a warped bestiary sailing forever in search of dry land...
...four years' experience in a minor Cabinet post (as Education Secretary in the early 1970s), Thatcher was virtually untutored in the art of governing, untested under fire. But in four years' time she earned the nickname "Iron Lady," as a tough, gritty leader who seemed to relish a good scrap. Her personality, in a sense, became government policy. "The resolute approach," Tories labeled it. By the time she called new elections last month, Thatcher dominated the national stage as no other Prime Minister had done since Churchill...