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...been found. They unearthed a belt buckle, bullet casings, bits of leather. The unknown soldier kept coming into Carlyon's mind for weeks. "What was he doing when the shell hit?" he writes. "Who wept for him?" Near Pozi?res, whose capture in 1916 cost 8,000 Australian lives, Carlyon stood on a height known as the Windmill. From there, "you could almost sketch in what a German would have seen on the first day of the Somme," he says, hands sweeping an imaginary horizon. "The observation balloons, a great arc of gray smoke where the British were attacking on this...
...Chen's future, though, may be decided not by his opponents but by his supporters. His Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) stood by him during previous recall efforts, preventing the KMT and its allies from securing the legislative support needed to put a referendum to Taiwan's voters. "Up to now," says Shelley Rigger, a Taiwan expert at Davidson College in North Carolina, DPP members "have said if the choice is between supporting Chen or supporting our political enemies, we go with Chen." But now their frustration "could reach the tipping point." If only 12 of the legislature...
...married in 1984, the middle of a decade that belonged to the local Edmonton Oilers. The franchise won five Stanley Cups in seven years, and Lu was sold on hockey as soon as a coworker introduced him to the game. When sons Kevin and Jonathan were born, they never stood a chance. “[My father] just fell in love with it,” says Kevin, now a senior center on the Harvard men’s hockey team. “He figured it would be a good way for me and my brother to get involved...
...Although Penn handed Harvard its only Ivy loss of the season, it was the Crimson who had the last laugh. Heading into the weekend, the Crimson and the Quakers were both contending for the top spot in the league. Harvard controlled its destiny with a half-game lead and stood to clinch the outright championship with a win, while Penn needed a Crimson loss or tie to get a piece of the title. By winning the Ivies, Harvard, which was ranked No. 17 in Division I entering the weekend and boasts the second most prolific offense in the nation with...
...minutes remaining in the opening frame. Vaillancourt also assisted—with a sweet feed to Brine—on the team’s next score, tallied on the power play with 1:27 left in the period. That goal gave Harvard a comfortable 2-0 lead that stood up the rest of the way. Chu assisted on both goals to bump her season total to 11.The lowlight for the Crimson was the 11 penalties it committed, but fortunately its penalty kill was up to the challenge, erasing all of the Golden Knights’ extra-skater opportunities without...