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...sorrow. The special place of Nachtwey's photography is the realm beyond the contrived, where even jaded media-hounds cannot escape the pathos. The starvation in the Sudan and in Somalia is impossible to stage, and the subjects are too weak to strike a pose. We see the stick-men dying in the streets and we cannot look away...

Author: By Graeme Wood, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Nachtwey Shoots the Dead | 5/19/2000 | See Source »

Last spring, on a dark, rainy afternoon in April, Bill Forbush scored in the final minutes of play to give the Crimson stick-men a stunning, come-from-behind win over the Princeton Tigers...

Author: By David Clarke, | Title: What Happened to the Harvard Lacrosse Team? | 5/3/1977 | See Source »

Cornell, tired of toying with the stick-men, then roated back for its four-goal flurry, to end the quarter leading, 6-2. Midfielder Doug Johnstone scored twice in this rash of points, and middies Chris Murison and Mike Cunnningham added one each...

Author: By Philip Weiss, | Title: Stickmen Become Victims Of Cornell Scoring Binge | 4/23/1973 | See Source »

Nobody feels sorry for the Black Hawks any more. Chicago always had good stick-men and shifty skaters. Pilous concentrated on teamwork and hard-checking, hard-skating conditioning. The Black Hawks are the only team in the league that regularly holds a workout on the day of a game. When they get on the ice, says Pilous, "they should be sharp and eager and ready to take a bite out of the puck." Pilous' approach has helped Left Wing Bobby Hull, 24, become one of the most explosive scorers in hockey history, with a record-tying 50 goals last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Who's Sorry Now? | 3/1/1963 | See Source »

...years, canceled customs' duties on imported gaming equipment. Under certain conditions it offered to back casinos in nightclubs or hotels worth more than $1,000,000. The Minister of Labor, whose brother turned up this year owning a cut of one big new casino, obligingly ruled that roulette stick-men and craps pitmen were "technicians," admissible to Cuba for two years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: A Game of Casino | 1/20/1958 | See Source »

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