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Sophomore goaltender Brittany Martin was brilliant in her first career NCAA appearance, blanking Wisconsin for more than two games’ worth of hockey before finally letting one by. Threatened with countless odd-man rushes, Martin calmly stood up to charging forwards, fearlessly dove to cover loose pucks, and speared shot after shot with her glove. In all, Martin saw 68 shots, saving 67 to tie Cheryl Tate’s 25-year-old school record for saves in a game...
...Mahdi Army, a powerful Shi'ite militia loyal to Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, should be officially allowed to bear arms as a community security force. The Mahdi Army had protected previous pilgrimages, but has also been linked to executions and ethnic cleansing of Sunnis; it recently stood down its men, under pressure from the government of Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki, to avoid clashes with U.S. and Iraqi military forces securing Baghdad...
...glanced up quizzically, registered his smile, winked her good eye and plunged the pencil like a bodkin into one of her braids, shouting "Danken sie!" as she dashed off down ... Worth Street, Skaggs saw on the sign bolted to the lamppost. The single Negro among the city's lamplighters stood on his ladder wiping soot from the street sign with...
Today, the highly anticipated film “300,” a Frank Miller graphic novel adapted into a “Sin City”-styled cinematic extravaganza, opens in theaters across the world. For fans who stood shivering in lines last night to catch a midnight showing, “300” is a worthy piece of modern art, blending Greek history and shed Persian blood. Some would argue it is little more than another desperate Hollywood attempt to prostitute for the mass media any meaning history has. But regardless of where you personally stand...
...Leonidas’ passionate rallying call to freedom is a better reflection of what we like to think of our society and its values, rather than what those heroic 300 actually stood for. Like “human rights,” “freedom” is one of those terms we like to associate with anything considered positive, and we give its social impact for granted. As the Spartans were bred to bleed, we have been conditioned to associate those terms with the best traits of our culture...