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Another anti-junta stalwart is comedian Zaganar (the name means "Tweezers"), also briefly jailed for his role in last year's protests. Zaganar and his celebrity friends have bought food and medical supplies for Nargis victims and are using their names to raise more funds. Both the disaster and the grassroots response to it are unprecedented in Burma. "I think there will be political consequences," he says. "People are very angry with the government...
Eight Belles died on the altar of the quick buck. About that, even the most stalwart horse-racing fans can agree. Andrew Beyer, dean of America's racing writers, explained the death of the Kentucky Derby runner-up by noting that thoroughbreds are, in fact, overbred. They are no longer created with robust careers in mind; their life goal is a couple of quick wins in Triple Crown races, followed by retirement to a stud farm. "Modern commercial breeders produce horses in order to sell them, and if those horses are unsound, they become somebody else's problem," Beyer wrote...
Harvard didn’t sway under Boston College’s stalwart defense...
...past two seasons, she has earned All-Ivy first and second team recognition, a spot on the NSCAA All-Northeast Region second team, and been an Academic All-Ivy League honoree. She played all 17 games for Harvard in 2007, tallying a goal and an assist, and proved a stalwart defender as the team recorded a 10-6-1 record.On the basis of these individual and collective successes, it was no surprise Nichols’ enthusiasm resonated over the phone, in anticipation of a memorable training session with the national team.“The weather here is unbelievable...
...somehow fitting that Heston should be viewed as a larger-than-life anachronism. He is an emissary from a time when movies took themselves and their subjects seriously, when a leading man didn't have to crack wise to win over the audience, when stalwart trumped facetious, and screen conversation was more eloquent and elevated. In all those decades of heroes, Heston never once played one based on a comic book; his films? sources were the Bible, ancient history and Shakespeare...