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...renowned prison reform advocate Daniel Mintz. Mintz brought up a number of good points and was very critical of what he referred to as the “prison-industrial complex.” Also, I stole so much shit from this guy. TV, DVD player, microwave, two alarm clock-radios. You name it, I stole it. His kids? I put them up for adoption. I stole...
Penn had one last chance to tie the game, but the Harvard defense surrendered nothing inside. Quaker junior guard Tara Twomey, who had rallied Penn all game with her aggressive defense, was forced to fire a desperation three with the shot clock winding down. The shot, well beyond her range, fell into Cserny’s hands...
...Yoshihiro Matsumoto knows that sinking feeling. It comes over him like a bad hangover every morning at 5 o'clock when he and his wife head out to a large, chilly warehouse next door. He climbs up a loft, pulls out a 2-m-high bundle of blue-green straw called igusa, carries it downstairs and dumps it in the hopper of a weaving machine where it will be made into tatami mats. The Matsumotos have worked in Kagami, on the southern island of Kyushu, for three generations; it was igusa that turned a poor country backwater into a modern...
...Judge Not--At Least Not Like This Whether figure skating should be in the Olympics at all is a question some people have been asking for years. "Maybe it's not objective enough," says veteran Olympic coach Frank Carroll. "Maybe we should just let 'em all race against the clock." Don't count on figure skating's being booted from the Games. It's too valuable a franchise. It always draws the biggest TV audiences of the Winter Games. And controversy only makes it more golden. The face-off between Tonya Harding and Nancy Kerrigan in 1994 gained the largest...
...clock sharp, the doors close. Madanian stays to chat with a friend and later that night, her sisters come up to help her pack up some of the store’s things. The store has been in the family for most of their lives...