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...approach to the game.” Joining Akpan on the roster are six Major League Soccer professionals, including Real Salt Lake phenom Freddie Adu. The others are Nathan Sturgis, Tim Ward, Danny Szetela, Josmer Altidore, and Quavas Kirk. UCLA midfielder Tony Beltran and Wake Forest defender Julian Valentin, also named, joined Akpan in an online show called “Roster Spot” on ussoccer.com. In one episode, Akpan ran, at 4.60 seconds, the fastest 40-yard dash at the camp. Other honorees include UCLA forward Sal Zizzo, who scored two goals against Harvard in the NCAA Tournament...
Playing the Victim, the brothers' more recent work, is similarly disturbing. It revolves around Valentin, a student who gets a job playing the victim in police crime-scene reconstructions. Even though they are simulated, his repeated participation in one gruesome end after another highlights the violence and brutality endemic in contemporary life. Meanwhile, in a parallel plot that parodies Shakespeare, the ghost of Valentin's father tells him that he was poisoned by his brother who later married Valentin's mother. While the finale is inevitable - Valentin takes his mother, his uncle and his girlfriend (who has become...
...first of all, because I am so happy to be on the ice, and second of all for the people who need the money,” said Baiul. Even though 12 years have passed since she won the gold, Baiul maintains a busy schedule, training with longtime coach Valentin Nikolaev, who prepared her for the 1994 Olympics, and traveling “about 300 days a year.” “My message is stick to what you love to do, and that’s what I do,” said Baiul...
Minaya isn't just a checkbook GM. He has clearly added value, following what he calls his "Montreal model": look for cheap players no one else will touch. Based on last year's stats, second baseman Jos Valentin and outfielder Endy Chavez should be in the bush leagues. But Minaya trusted his scouts, and each player has delivered. Valentin hit two homers in the division-clinching win over Florida...
...northeast of Moscow, it's well worth a visit. In the years after Aksakov's death, the railroad magnate Savva Mamontov bought the estate and turned it into a colony for artists, writers and musicians, providing house space for Art Nouveau painter Mikhail Vrubel, Realist Ilya Repin, Impressionist Valentin Serov and landscape painter Vasili Polenov, among others. Both of Abramtsevo's historical periods are preserved?half of the manor house was kept in the Empire style of Aksakov's time, while the Mamontov section features fireplaces with colorful Art Nouveau tiles that Vrubel crafted in his on-site ceramics workshop...