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...presence in ?The Country?s Premier Winter Sports Competition? applies to rugby league and rugby union, but the dominant football code nationwide is Australian Rules [Sept. 8]. In that code Maori and Pacific Islanders are seldom seen, but the number of Aboriginal players is growing rapidly. Jeffrey Graham, Geelong, Victoria...
...nightfall, the few hotels that remained open filled quickly. In between fielding guests' questions at Motel 6 in Gulfport Sunday afternoon, Victoria Hawkins said she was surprised only 67 of the motel's 98 rooms were occupied, but it was a clear sign that people remember the harsh lessons of Hurricane Katrina three years ago and are taking the storm warnings seriously...
...says it received about $3,420 last year from Victoria's Australian Support for Intercountry Aid (Children). President Glenys Chandler says she liaised closely with a number of families who adopted from MSS, and dealt with the agency herself, but was unaware of any problems. The Victorian Human Services Department is aware of two adoptions through MSS, but a spokesman says it had received "no approaches about the adoptions from India." One of the adopting families has told TIME that their two children were personally delivered to Australia by Dinesh Ravindranath, son of MSS's principals. "We would definitely like...
...presented in incredible density: from Victoria Peak, you can see just how impossibly tiny the Hong Kong Island urban jungle is. Central's twinkling strip of tenements and skyscrapers line one bank of Victoria Bay while Tsim Sha Tsui, on the far side, is Central's equally slender but less dramatic companion. The manmade portion of Hong Kong is merely two shimmering halves of a wafer-thin cookie engulfed in mountains of green...
...from the United States, and he told me that my Spanish was “bastante bien”—good enough. If my Spanish has really improved during my short time here, then that’s bastante bien for me. —Victoria B. Kabak '09, a Crimson news executive, is a social studies concentrator in Kirkland House...