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Firing on all cylinders for the first time in two years, Maasdorp’s goal for the season is to remain healthy. She spent her senior year of high school sidelined by a torn ACL, giving her the opportunity to study the game from a different angle...
...poems?or at least in Barks' translations of them?is one who seemingly has little interest in the intricacies of orthodoxy and doctrine. "Rumi keeps breaking the mosque and the minaret and the school," Barks told National Public Radio last year. "He says when those are torn down, then dervishes can begin their community. So he wants us all to break out of our conditioning, be it national or be it religious or be it gender based...
...Although lots of Shanghai's historic tree-lined neighborhoods were torn down in the go-go '90s, many graceful mansions remain, especially in the old French Concession. The city's funkiest bars and restaurants crowd this area, some in renovated colonial villas. True, there's been plenty of recent buzz about Xintiandi, a Disneyfied version of Ye Olde Shanghai that houses the city's poshest restaurants and bars in gutted old buildings. But Xintiandi feels like a sleight-of-hand: an insta-version of Shanghai that betrays little of the city's real history. Avoid it. Instead experience real colonial...
...operative instrument here is not the guitar or piano but the love-torn heart, which is what makes all the talk of loss and resurrection actually believable. His campfire blues on “Lonesome Tears” are exactly that, simple and honest—“How could this love ever-changing / Never change the way I feel...
...Individual players have also helped heal long-standing rifts in Sri Lanka. In a land torn apart by two decades of ethnic-based conflict between the Sinhalese and Tamil populations, there is only one truly national hero: Muttiah Muralitharan. He is not a politician or a pop star. He is a southern-born Tamil, the son of a candy maker, blessed with the unlikely ability to spin a cricket ball like a top. In Tamil-controlled territory only the fearsome and reclusive Tamil Tiger rebel leader Velupillai Prabakharan matches his legend. In the bombed-out streets of Jaffna...