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...Tiananmen Square, dared to challenge unjust government policies. Mrs. Parks, who died last week at age 92, was never driven by any political agenda, and she was never abrasive. She united us all with peace and perseverance. God bless her soul, and may the light of liberation forever shine...
...energy of a performance, if only from a strange man grinding his chest against your back while the floor imminently threatens collapse from the seemingly random gyrations of the crowd. But, dogged by errors, Wolf Parade never really took advantage of the space. Opening with “Shine a Light”—at a significantly faster pace than on the album version—they got the room going even as Dan Boeckner, one of two lead singers, appeared ready to give himself whiplash. Then, as soon as the song finished, the technical difficulties began...
After 11 tries, it looked like this would be it. After 11 tries, 11 almosts and should-have-beens, the Harvard field hockey team was supposed to shake the tiger off its back—and, perhaps more importantly, give shine to an otherwise disheartening 2005 season. After more than a decade, the 12th time looked like it would be the charm. It wasn’t. Senior midfielder Jen McDavitt was everywhere: diving for balls, challenging rebounds, running coast to coast, feeding penalty corners, and scoring the Crimson’s only goal. Her coach, Sue Caples, would gladly...
...newest effort to shine history's harsh light on the Great Helmsman is Mao: The Unknown Story (Knopf; 814 pages) by Jung Chang and Jon Halliday. Chang is the author of Wild Swans, the gripping and mega-selling 1991 memoir of how three generations of her family survived modern China's upheavals. (She was a Maoist Red Guard in the Cultural Revolution's early stages.) Halliday, Chang's husband, is an author and Russia historian...
...wide receivers in school history in Mazza and senior Rodney Byrnes. Then Byrnes went down on the first play of the season with a pulled hamstring. Mazza injured his ankle in the fourth quarter against Brown. Senior Ryan Tyler, the former running back who finally got his chance to shine, was listed as “questionable” to start this week and did not play.Left to fill their place is a list of names that leave public-address announcers scrambling for their roster sheets. Junior Danny Brown, sophomores Joe Murt and Matt Lagace, and freshman Alex Breaux have...