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Thousands of Japanese riot police were mobilized to safeguard the torch along its 18.7 km (11.6 mi) route in the city of Nagano - the host of the 1998 Winter Olympics. The show of force kept most protesters in line. Compared with those of some previous host cities, Nagano authorities managed to maintain relative calm, but the cacophony of slogans shouted by pro-China or pro-Tibet demonstrators, Japanese nationalists and human rights organizations flooded air already full of the colors of Chinese, Tibetan and Japanese flags. "Clearly, the mix of demonstrators shows that Japan is a peaceful nation after...
...wondered. "No, honey," my husband told her. "He's not here anymore. That's just his body." She worked at this, how the arms that held her and the lap she sat in were no longer him. "You know how when we go to Florida, we leave our winter coats at home because we won't need them there? Well, he just left this behind because he doesn't need it anymore." And this appeared to make perfect sense to her, and she went to play, full of love and certainty, and we all took a walk in the watery...
...Novey said. While Novey said he is a “spontaneous runner” who often runs in the middle of the night, other members of HCMC have been preparing for the marathon for months. For most of them, snowy winter weather is no excuse not to run outside. “People have different tolerances for how much they can run on a treadmill. No one likes the treadmill,” Kreg E. Moccia ’10 said. Many of the HCMC participants do not have extensive running credentials beyond high school athletics. Moccia has never...
...great job with their win, and the men took good steps to close the gap with Yale.”The win for the women completes a sweep of Yale this year—the Crimson women beat the Bulldogs in the fall cross country season and the winter indoor season—and Saturday’s win came in large part from sweeps in the 100-meter and 200-meter dashes, the 100-meter hurdles, and the javelin.Dara Wilson’s 14.39 time in the 100-meter hurdles was not only good enough to win the event...
...Singapore-born and San Francisco-based writer Wena Poon is nevertheless banking on the continuing appeal of émigré literature with a debut collection of short stories that takes as its theme the Singaporean diaspora. Given that the latter has been so infrequently explored, Lions in Winter has a greater chance of being fresh than a comparable Chinese or Indian work - but instead, it lapses, at least in part, into the clichés that bedevil stories of Asian deracination...