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...partying stops. His crowning achievement came last September, when he won a famous singing contest at Kabul's Park Cinema. That day, Mirwais appeared in an immaculate white suit, handling the audience with the insouciance of a mite-sized Sinatra. His performance blew the other contestants off the stage...
...Last week [against Duluth, the referees] let us play. Then we get here on this stage on the big ice surface and it’s completely different,” said St. Lawrence coach Paul Flanagan. “So I think the kids were a little confused with this dramatic change. You get to the point where you’re not sure how to play defense...
...ousted the following day by defending national champion Denver, 4-2, setting the stage for an All-WCHA Frozen Four. Harvard (21-10-3), meanwhile, was left only to contemplate yet another playoff berth come to naught, its fourth in as many seasons...
...name with communism's demise. Wrote the former Soviet leader in 1992: "Everything that happened in Eastern Europe in these last few years would have been impossible without the presence of the Pope and without the important role--including the political role--that he played on the world stage...
...world was a stage every last inch of which the Pope appeared determined to tread. Three months after his election, he boarded a plane for the Dominican Republic and Mexico on the first of scores of global pilgrimages that established the exultant rhythm of his papacy. People expected the youngest Pope in 132 years--a 58-year-old outdoorsman described by an Australian newspaper as "built like a rugby front-row forward"--to be energetic. Yet even St. Paul, the archetypal evangelist, might have wondered at John Paul's 1989, a fairly typical year, featuring stops in Madagascar, Reunion, Zambia...