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...brooms serve as a handicap, since there are so few restrictions on contact between players. Hair-pulling and neck-grabbing are forbidden, but slide-tackling, body-checking, tripping, and shoulder-checking are all fair game. The Snitch has even fewer restrictions. According to the official rulebook, the Snitch “may do whatever it takes to avoid capture within the realm of common sense and morality,” which in past games has included throwing mud into players’ eyes and headbutting them to the ground. Play only stops for a foul, there...

Author: By Avishai D. Don | Title: Blood on a Broomstick | 11/20/2009 | See Source »

...There is no other word to explain the fact that Americans carry an average of eight credit cards and as much as $10,000 in unpaid balances and that, as a country, our collective credit-card debt now tops $960 billion. To shame that these costs fall on the shoulders of those who are least well positioned to shoulder them...

Author: By Clay A. Dumas | Title: House of Cards | 11/20/2009 | See Source »

...Kristen Stewart, were disappointed. Perhaps because of persistent rumors of a real-life romance, the two kept a strategic distance on the red carpet and never came close to intersecting. Stewart instead played around with the other member of her onscreen love triangle, Taylor Lautner, patting him on the shoulder as the two beamed at each other. "We both had to do talk shows today, and we both kind of nailed it," she told TIME, referring to her red-carpet moments with Lautner. "I was like, 'Congratulations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Moon's Premiere: A Familiar Scene of Lunacy | 11/17/2009 | See Source »

...Crimson responded less than two minutes later when Rogers blasted the puck over Kalemba’s left shoulder to make...

Author: By Lucy D. Chen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Crimson Fights Back To Force Tie | 11/17/2009 | See Source »

Manny Pacquiao is going through his throwing motion at Yankee Stadium. With easy deliberation, he shows off the form he says he perfected playing elementary school baseball in the dirt-poor southern Philippines before boxing took him over completely. His shoulder slips back, his torso pitches smoothly forward, left hand and arm torquing an imaginary ball into the depths of the air-conditioned players' cafeteria, where he is waiting to take the field for an announcement. The diamond stud in his ear catches the light...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Meaning and Mythos of Manny Pacquiao | 11/16/2009 | See Source »

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