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...children running through a field of flowers to one person who felt it helped her recover from a hectic week. Gardener probed repeatedly at Ma’s experimental inclinations and his will to take musical risks. “I may be a bit of a risk-taker,” Ma said. “We’re in a society where you need change and new things to stay in the game.” Despite this will to push boundaries, Ma has continued to live in Cambridge ever since he was a student here...
...guess I was lucky.' MUTTIAH MURALITHARAN, Sri Lankan spin bowler, on bowling out English batsman Paul Collingwood. The feat took place during a match in Muralitharan's hometown of Kandy, making the bowler the greatest wicket taker in Test cricket, with Collingwood his 709th victim
...never seen a referee call like that before ever,” Tune said.Johns Hopkins was awarded a penalty in the first half, and as the play occurred, the head official ejected sophomore Spencer Livingston from the game for moving towards the penalty taker during the play. Although the decision was a curious one to make, there was nothing unusual about Johns Hopkins’ strategy for the rest of the game.The Blue Jays capitalized on Harvard’s misfortunes, scoring six goals on man-advantage opportunities and effectively counter-attacking off of the Crimson’s turnover...
...more than one way to fight a revolution. While the African National Congress (ANC) of Nelson Mandela and others confronted apartheid head on, Maponya undermined it from the inside. A 22-year-old teacher when apartheid first took hold in 1948, Maponya was offered a job as a stock taker in a clothes maker. He quickly proved a talented operator, winning a promotion for himself and the white manager, a Mr. Bolton, who took him on. A grateful Bolton began to sell offcuts and soiled cloth to Maponya, who set up his own tailor and sold clothing on credit...
...complete with a pseudo-Fascist bureaucracy and a Muggle-Born Registration Commission headed by no less a personage than Dolores Umbridge (now permanently merged with Imelda Staunton, thanks to Staunton's indelible performance in the movie version of Order of the Phoenix). Rowling has never been a risk-taker, politically speaking, and this is hardly a subtle or controversial tack to take, but it's one we can all be relied on to get together and be outraged...