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...able to come in and help us.”Delaney-Smith calls Markley’s play a “European kind of game” because the forward can play inside and out. This versatility stems from Markley’s greatest strength: her athleticism. “She can grab the rim, effortlessly,” Delaney-Smith gushes. “She’s just so good.”Markley and others will be fighting all year for playing time, striving to contribute to another championship run.“[The freshmen] just...
...Christensen, we unfortunately do not have as much time to decode it. The concept of an implicit criticism of the fast-paced world of today through an intricate plot is meritorious, but neither Høeg’s plot, nor his characters, nor even his style have enough strength to carry this through.The main protagonist, world-renowned circus clown Kasper, is blessed with incredible hearing verging on telepathy—and also cursed with incredible tax debt. Mysterious and powerful nuns enlist his help in guarding twelve particularly gifted children in exchange for international immunity. After one of them...
...most successful pairings. The bold red Mayan ‘drawing’ offsets the Grecian slighter white figure technique. It is often the similarities in works across time and place that are most intriguing. A case in the second gallery that houses fish and flowers illustrates this strength. A floral Josef Hoffman design from roughly 1920 echoes both a Chinese vase from the eleventh-century Northern Song Dynasty and a twelfth-century plaque from Cologne—one of the show’s tiny treasures—while the congruence of fish forms in ancient Greek and Egyptian...
Prince, a lawyer, became Citigroup CEO in 2003 largely on the strength of his skill in resolving these legal hassles. But he led Citi smack into the next big financial scandal: subprime-mortgage lending. Over the past five years, Citi went from also-ran to leading issuer of the CDOs that take subprime mortgages or other loans and reprocess them into purportedly low-risk securities. Market jitters and ratings-agency downgrades have sent CDOs into a free fall--and now the banks have to account for the losses...
...real strength of the Penn offense, however, is a healthy Joe Sandberg. The senior running back has been slowed by injuries all season, missing parts of over half of the Quakers’ contests this year and sitting out a loss to Villanova entirely. Despite the injuries, Sandberg has run for 793 yards and nine touchdowns on the year, both second in the league to Yale’s Mike McLeod...