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...kick that grazed the upper left post, missing the net by a narrow margin. Merritt also had an attempt that hit the crossbar and rolled behind the net a few minutes before the game ended. “I am trying to turn and go at the goal and shoot more,” Merritt said. “Good things happen when you shoot.” Harvard’s sophomore goalkeeper, Lauren Mann, recorded her eighth shutout of the season overall, but lack of a strong Vermont offense and another impressive performance by Crimson defenders junior Nicole...
...enough to finish fifth in a strong field,” Shuman said. “We had the potential to finish higher if we played our absolute best.” As a testament to the difficulty of The Course at Yale, only three individuals were able to shoot under par in the entire tournament. The course, playing at 6,749 yards to a par of 70, has been ranked among the world’s most difficult. “Everyone thinks they played better than they scored,” Shuman said, “because...
...ability to manipulate light, and - far beyond that - a love and desire to perceive the human condition," says Michael Stipe, lead singer of R.E.M. Corbijn has photographed Stipe neck-high in the ocean and once woke him at 6 a.m. to catch the dawn light for a shoot. It's a testament to the respect Corbijn commands that pampered rock stars let him photograph them crawling naked along a riverbank (Iggy Pop), cross-dressing (Dave Grohl) or in a loincloth (David Bowie). They turn to him even in the full knowledge that he is liable to ignore their lyrics...
...quickly suppressed. Khin Nyunt, the former head of military intelligence who was once hailed as a potential reformer for suggesting dialogue with long-imprisoned democracy leader and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, now languishes under house arrest himself. Despite scattered reports of soldiers refusing to shoot against Buddhist monk-led demonstrators last week, most of the wide-eyed recruits obeyed orders. "Burma's military is a breed apart, and its biggest accomplishment is the sense of loyalty that it has bred," says Josef Silverstein, a Burma expert and professor emeritus at Rutgers University in New Jersey...
...Rather, these petrodollars sate the junta leaders’ appetite for luxury goods and lavish mansions. More disturbingly, according to the Burma Campaign UK, nearly half of the government’s revenue goes to the military. These dollars paid for the guns that were used last week to shoot down Buddhist monks and pro-democracy activists who were protesting peacefully against the regime’s abuses...