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...Much has been made of these stories as abstinence parables for a new age; Edward would like nothing more than to sweep Bella off her feet, and she'd love to be swept, but anything beyond first base could cost her her life, if not her immortal soul. So he climbs into her window at night and holds her as she falls asleep, and protects her from the various other fiends who for reasons not worth explaining are looking to kill her. It's possible, as many commentators have suggested, that the chivalrous Edward is a teenage girl's dream...
...Crimson burst out of the gates with an 11-game winning streak and took the top spot in the national rankings, no one saw it coming.The beginning of this year has not been as kind to No. 4 Harvard, but it has been equally unexpected. The Crimson was swept by ECAC foes Clarkson and No. 8 St. Lawrence on a two-game road trip this weekend. Harvard (3-2-1, 3-2-1 ECAC) opened the season No. 3 in the nation and was expected to dominate within its conference after going undefeated against ECAC opponents last year...
...Everyone just busted out and was unbelievably fast,” Mills added.Other notable events included the 1000-yard freestyle, the 200-yard backstroke, the 200-yard breaststroke, and the 200-yard individual medley.In the 1000-yard freestyle, junior Alexandra Clarke, freshman Catherine Zagroba, and junior Katie Faulkner swept the event, with Clarke finishing an astonishing 39 seconds ahead of the first non-Crimson swimmer to touch the wall.Sophomore phenom Katherine Pickard picked up where she left off last season by winning the 200-yard backstroke with a time of 2:04.19. She matched that finish with a victory...
...infrastructure and economy of the country are as shoddy as the construction of its schools. Precision and planning are as rare as forested mountaintops, swept clean by loggers and people desperate for firewood. Day-to-day survival is hard enough. Rising fuel and food prices led to riots earlier this year. Then four hurricanes pummeled the country in the space of four weeks; the resulting floods displaced approximately one million people, killed more than a thousand and left thousands more homeless. (See pictures of Haiti's food riots here...
Maoism and the Cultural Revolution made that harder to do. Even indigenous opera was swept aside in favor of such turgid revolutionary works as The Red Detachment of Women and Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy. Long experienced the suffocation of the musical arts in a more personal way than most when his grandfather, who had studied music in Paris, was sent to the country to work - but only after the Red Guards destroyed his musical library. "When I was five he started teaching me music anyway," Long says. "We were only allowed to learn revolutionary songs, but he taught them...