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...Your Doctor: A Patient's Guide to Avoiding Harmful Medical Care. "But a lot of gym yoga is about who can do this really difficult contortion to display to everyone else in the class." The workout warriors have to realize that yoga is more an Athenian endeavor than a Spartan one. You don't win by punishing your body. You convince it, seduce it, talk it down from the ledge of ambition and anxiety. Yoga is not a struggle but a surrender...
...transcends the actor's capabilities at the moment, the focus and preparation by cast and crew for this production are clearly evident and ought be commended. Though Strindberg preferred as realistic a set as possible, as he instructed in the preface to the play, Emily Carmichael's '04 nearly Spartan orange and blue design has a calming undertone for the drama onstage. The clever matching of colors mirror the emotions and intensities of the actors, visually manifesting shifts in emotion and mood. This careful attention to detail is just one of the qualities that earmark Guest as an ambitious...
...crib No. 17 of the spartan but crowded children's ward at the Church of Scotland Hospital in KwaZulu-Natal, a tiny, staring child lies dying. She is three and has hardly known a day of good health. Now her skin wrinkles around her body like an oversize suit, and her twig-size bones can barely hold her vertical as nurses search for a vein to take blood. In the frail arms hooked up to transfusion tubes, her veins have collapsed. The nurses palpate a threadlike vessel on the child's forehead. She mews like a wounded animal...
Buying another pair of boots was not on my mind until the bus stopped at the corner of Madison Avenue and 61st Street long enough for me to get a good look into the Barney's window. There in casual spartan urbanity were leather and suede accessories, a stark juxtaposition to the flashy holiday display that had twinkled there for weeks. But it wasn't the brown suede poncho-slash-bolero perched on a pedestal like the thing of beauty it was that made this capable shopper flush. No, it was the huge diagonal block of letters that read CLEARANCE...
...most recent pair of losses against the top-ranked Spartans, Yale was denied a tally by stellar Spartan goaltender Ryan Miller. Harvard will look for an intense effort out of its defense, whose play has been ignited by freshman Kenny Smith...