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...struggling Huskies are still in the trough, freshly evidenced by last night’s 9-1 drubbing, the most lopsided result in the history of the meeting. The significance of the Boston rivalry is not lost on the team’s tri-captain Nicole Corriero...
Tsunamis, moreover, have a trick up their watery sleeve, one that can trap the unwary. If the trough of a wave hits the shore before a crest, the first thing that anyone on shore notices is not water rushing onto the land but the opposite. That is what happened in Thailand and Sri Lanka. In the Sri Lankan town of Trincomalee, a hotel manager remembers the sea rushing out so the beach became magically full of gorgeous, colorful, stranded fish. "Men ran down to the shore with gunny-bags and stuffed them full of fish," he says. On Phuket, Tiina...
...visit a "house." Luke introduces the manger as part of his view of them as involuntary short-timers. The English word manger, like the original Greek word phatne in Luke, is even more modest than our usual understanding of it. It means not a stable but simply a feeding trough or at best a stall. Either word would be consistent with the kind of rural poverty that has inspired poor people and their champions throughout the history of Christianity. Today's crche scenes, even the more elaborate ones, actually descend from an attempt by the 13th century ascetic genius...
Needless to say, America is not the only country in the world in which such shenanigans go on, nor is the steel industry the only industry that feeds at the public trough. Other countries grant an incredible degree of protection to certain domestic industries, and they, too, should remove their trade barriers. We are particularly concerned about the “dumping” of cheap steel subsidized by foreign governments that compelled Congress to pass the Byrd Amendment. Dumping is just as anti-competitive as raising tariffs...
...soulful, original and momentous music of our parents’ generation, where does a geriatric harmonica player with a black lung voice fit in? Is Dylan, decades beyond the pinnacle of his career and currently caught up in controversy over charges of plagiarism, mired in an inescapable career trough or will his later work stand the test of time...