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...some five minutes away from each another in their native Ontario and saw each other often, playing hockey in the Corriero basement that had been furnished for hockey. Designed by Nicholas Corriero, Nicole’s father, the plywood-covered room boasts a shooting range, a net, and a wooden goalie—a prerequisite to their future power plays with Harvard...
Without sports, Manny Ramirez is a nobody. His only marketable skill—the ability to hit a ball with a wooden stick with some regularity—doesn’t really lend itself to any profession besides the one that he finds himself currently employed in. Ramirez cannot be great without baseball...
...week, stately stone Buddhas commingle with Greek gods and goddesses, an Iranian prince, and a bare-chested warrior with a rosy complexion and deep blue eyes. A dragon-edged jade disk vies for attention against vases of swirling Roman glass, Byzantine gold coins and a curious flock of tiny wooden geese that could almost pass for miniatures of the sculptures of Henry Moore. If not for the captions to remind us where the motley 300 objects on display were unearthed, it might be easy to forget that the subject of the show is China...
...Counter Terrorism Task Force, a unit the U.S. is training to take on more counterinsurgent dirty work. The early stages of the operation unfold smoothly. One team of troops stops on the second floor, the other continues to the third, where they place explosive charges against a thin wooden apartment door. Two booms in quick succession echo in the concrete stairwell. The doors shatter inward in a storm of wooden splinters, and the Iraqi and American troops, identically outfitted with US-made M4 carbines, night-vision goggles, boots, uniforms and body armor, burst...
...owners named the establishment for the mythical bird that rises from its ashes in blazing glory — a common symbol for Ireland’s rebirth after the Anglo-Irish War. The interior of the Landing is bathed in a warm red and features authentic wooden walls. The Galway-born bartender, Niamh (rhymes with ‘Bev’—no joke), told of the St. Paddy’s Day festivities: an honest-to-goodness bagpipe band will follow a showing of the John Ford classic The Quiet Man (John Wayne...