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David LeNeveu, the Big Red goaltender whose favorite pastime is finding new records to break each weekend, was sitting on the bench for an extra attacker while his teammates scrambled in the Harvard zone, trying to summon a year’s worth of angst to help them score one more goal...
...looks as if she is ticked off that someone messed up her mochaccino order. The true stars are the sumptuous-for-TV special effects and the Matrix-esque combat scenes. It's hard to get too earnest about any drama that includes the battle cry "Send men to summon worms!" but the message--"When religion and politics ride in the same cart, the whirlwind follows"--does resonate. If only the whirlwind were usually so picturesque...
While the sun has long since set on the British Empire, there is still one thing that can summon former colonialists together to party like it’s 1899—the lure of sixers and sticky wickets. For those not versed in the baffling phraseology of British sport: cricket...
...rushing to conclusions," says Blix; "I have to be a lawyer ... Monitoring requires patience ... I try to get the balance that I perceive is true." Not the words that Bush would use. But don't be surprised if, one day soon, Hans Blix's modulated tones summon up the dogs of war. --With reporting by Massimo Calabresi, John F. Dickerson and Mark Thompson/Washington, Scott MacLeod/Cairo, J.F.O. McAllister/London and Marguerite Michaels/U.N...
...from his 1998 hit Todii, a question, originally about aids, but now so relevant to all of the country's crises, whether political, economic, natural or spiritual: "What shall we do?" In Zimbabwe, the answer has always been to make music. Traditionally, the mbira (thumb piano) was used to summon spirits for help. Music was also Zimbabwe's oral newspaper, and the sung editorials often spurred action. In the '70s, when Ian Smith's whites-only government ruled what was then Rhodesia, says Mapfumo, "music inspired youngsters to fight that oppressive regime." Zimbabwe is independent now, he says...