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...threw it on the floor. Eyes blazing, he said, ''The Constitution is abolished. It was a document written by the Revisionists within the Communist Party. We recognize only the teachings of our Great Leader Chairman Mao.'' A girl came within a few inches of me and said, ''What trick are you trying to play? Your only way out is to bow your head in submission. Otherwise you will suffer.'' She shook her fist in front of my nose and spat on the floor. Another young man used a stick to smash the mirror hanging over the blackwood chest facing...
...captain Jennifer Sifers said, “we don’t get the chance to play anyone above us in the rankings. So it’s more important to focus within the ECAC.”Sifers led the way with her first career hat trick in a 8-1 win over the Dutchwomen (4-22-0, 0-18-0) on Friday night and sophomore Sarah Vaillancourt potted three goals of her own the next day in a 5-1 dismissal of the Engineers (12-16-1, 8-9-1). Eleven different players tallied points and all three...
...were “just kind of finding the net.” He credited his teammates’ passes, then praised the bounces his stick produced.Such modesty can explain away one goal, or perhaps a lucky two. But Meintel knocked home four pucks—including a hat trick Friday night—as the Harvard men’s hockey team beat Union and Rensselaer at the Bright Hockey Center this weekend. Meintel’s outburst lifted him to second on the team’s scoring list with nine goals.Meanwhile, Harvard...
...suffer from hemiplegic cerebral palsy, a condition that can partially paralyze one side of the body. If the children regularly use their weaker side, their motor function can improve. The problem is getting the children to do so outside of therapy sessions. Active video games might do the trick, thought William Li, an undergraduate engineering student at the University of Toronto who is conducting research at the university's Bloorview Kids Rehab teaching hospital...
...that point, Truman faced a choice. His commander on the ground, General Douglas MacArthur, demanded victory, which meant full-scale war with Beijing. Dropping 30 to 50 atom bombs on Manchuria, he suggested, would do the trick. But Truman refused. He fired MacArthur, refused to bomb China and, in a humiliating reversal, abandoned the dream of a liberated Korea. Instead, the U.S. fought to an unsatisfying draw, with an eventual cease-fire reaffirming the border between North and South. MacArthur denounced the new strategy, and Truman's approval ratings--already damaged by the loss of China--sank below 30%, where...