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Like Harvard, Vermont was also stricken by the injury bug. The Catamounts were without their leading scorer, sophomore Taylor Coppenrath, who came into the game averaging 21.7 points per game...
...director that Zhang found his true calling and an all-consuming lifelong passion. With Red Sorghum, Ju Dou and Raise the Red Lantern, Zhang proved himself in the art houses abroad. But many mainland critics remained unimpressed, accusing him of "exoticizing" the nation's feudal past and poverty-stricken countryside for foreigners. They felt he should play cultural ambassador, using his camera to burnish China's overseas image. Chinese audiences share this ambivalence. Younger moviegoers have an almost universal description of why they dislike Zhang's fixation on the past and on the countryside: "The films are really just...
...Under police guard to prevent looting by desperate locals, WFP workers in Zambia will load 18,000 tons of maize into waiting trucks. The trucks, which are normally used to ferry grain to refugee camps or emergency feeding stations, will then carry the precious food out of the drought-stricken southern African country and away from 2.9 million people facing starvation. This relief effort in reverse follows the Zambian government's decision in August to ban the distribution of all genetically modified food. It's also the latest chapter in an ugly and often absurd trade war between the European...
...wrote up the grant proposal, and, after securing the company of roommate Patrick Toomey ’03 by promising a little backpacking, the 6’3, 180-lb. Prasse-Freeman set out in mid-June to visit monks and young, poverty-stricken girls...
Blickstead, a Canadian, included a clause in the bill that originally read, “Whereas many students fly home for American Thanksgiving,” but the word “American” was quickly stricken by a vast majority of the council. The bill then passed by a wide margin...