Word: spartan
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Harvard offense had several near-misses prior to Andrews’ second goal. The Crimson’s biggest obstacle proved not to be Michigan State goalkeeper Christina Kirkaldy, the national leader in goals-against average and save percentage entering the day, but rather the Spartan defenders...
...three occasions, Spartan players packing the net and made defensive saves after Harvard had gotten the ball behind Kirkaldy. Kirkaldy herself made just four saves, including a couple one-on-one stops against Harvard senior Philomena Gambale...
...Today, Murakami does much of his writing at an apartment in Omotesando, a chic Tokyo neighborhood. His spartan office there is as businesslike as its inhabitant. Unassuming as ever, he still dresses in jeans, casual shirts and sneakers, runs 10 kilometers a day, watches his diet, goes to bed early and rises before dawn to work. "He has been the same right from the beginning," says Mizumaru Anzai, an illustrator and writer who has known Murakami for three decades...
...Spartan mothers used to send their send their sons into battle with shields and spears. The mother of Andrew J. Washkowitz ’04 sends him into competition armed only with tiles and a Scrabble rack. Five years ago, Ma Washkowitz, an aggressive Scrabbler, started teaching Andy how to play...
...rare tour of Sinuiju highlights how badly the place needs China's example. In the spartan North Korean city, few cars motor on the wide streets, and the decaying department store has a meager selection of basic packaged food and dull clothing. At night, schoolchildren gather in the main square to read under the floodlights pointed at a statue of Kim Il Sung, the country's founder. It's the brightest spot in a city plagued by chronic electrical power shortages. Meanwhile, across the Yalu River in the Chinese city of Dandong, new, white buildings rise above the riverbank, traffic...