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...Harvard’s favor was called off by the referees for being too high, sparking a Pacific scoring run that made the game too close for comfort for the Crimson.“It looked like we could have been up 3-0, and then all of a sudden it was 2-1,” said Harvard coach Sue Caples. “2-1 is a really dangerous score, and we let them back in the game at the end of the half.”It didn’t take long after the second period...
Might Pichuzkin have been mentally ill and thus not fully responsible for his actions? His mother says that Pichuzhkin, whom she raised alone after her husband abandoned the family, might have been affected by a blow to the head at the age of four; and also by the sudden loss of his grandfather, the only paternal figure in his life. But Russia's preeminent psychiatric institution examined him and declared him sane and fit for trial. Now a jury must decide if his boasts are true and, if so, how to punish him. They cannot sentence him to death. Russia...
...seat. Then came a disturbing discovery: Even though the other stalls were occupied, mine was the only one from which pee sounds were audible. All around me, I heard a great Zen-like steam of rushing water, but nary a human tinkle. I stopped mid-stream, overtaken by a sudden case of lavatory fright. In the land of toilets so fancy they sport buttons that manufacture artificial "flushing sounds," I had apparently committed a serious bathroom faux...
...Petsonk, international counsel for Environmental Defense. For that to happen, voters will have to show that they'll support politicians who support emissions caps. That's long been the case in Western Europe, and it's slowly happening in laggards like Australia and the U.S as well. Howard's sudden conversion on climate change is at least partially driven by the fact that global warming has emerged as a top concern among voters in Australia, which has suffered through years of extreme drought. The opposition Labor Party, which has pledged to sign the Kyoto Protocol, is leading in most opinion...
...About My Mother follows Manuela, a middle-aged nurse who is compelled by the sudden death of her teenage son to travel to Barcelona in search of his drug-addled, HIV-positive transvestite father, who now goes by the name Lola. He is elusive, but she finds Agrado, a transvestite prostitute he robbed and abandoned, and Sister Rosa, a local nun he impregnated and infected. Manuela begins mothering them both, and also befriends Huma, an aging lesbian stage diva performing in Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire. The quartet form a bizarre postmodern family that shares pain and solace alike...