| SPORTS TRIBUNE
More than the performances, the games would be deemed a success if they spark a revival of sporting activity among the men in uniform, something that has suffered greatly in past two decades. One of the reasons cited is the deployment of troops for internal security duties. However, if the games can rekindle interest in sports, the whopping amount of Rs 15 million what the 4th Military World Games cost would have been well spent. IANS
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When the Teacher Becomes the Student
With four months remaining until I head back to the US and still light-years away from the “fluency" I'd once imagined I'd be able to achieve, I decided to look into the private Mandarin schools in the Wudaokou area, not far from where I teach. My first stop was a school run by an American from Chicago. He didn't speak much Chinese but had a very firm handshake and made lots of eye contact-- things I noticed right away only because they are not the norm in China. Several days after I visited, he called to offer a 10% discount on the class we'd talked about. I appreciated the US-style of professionalism but not the US prices, which I couldn't afford on my local salary. The next school I visited offered me a free class. Their method was distinctive; the teacher presented me with a situation and I was asked to invent a story about it.
Police Violence and Abuses in Detention
His mother, an alcoholic, begs in the terminal and sends Victor and his sister out to beg for money as well. Whatever they collect they turn over to her; she uses this money to buy more liquor. Victor wants to go to a shelter for street children, but his mother opposes it. Several months ago, other street children doused Victor with gasoline and set him on fire, inflicting first degree burns over his thighs, groin, and genital area.19 * Juan Alexander, sixteen years old, had been on the streets for five years at the time we interviewed him. His father had died when he was one, and his stepfather was a physically abusive alcoholic. After years of suffering from violent attacks and trying, unsuccessfully, to protect his mother, Juan Alexander left home at the age of twelve. Once on the street he began to inhale glue.
Thomas just might fulfill his potential
Watching Tyrus Thomas play Thursday night, I smiled and shook my head. "Good for him," I thought to myself. Maybe he finally was getting it after all.
He had a terrific fourth quarter, scoring 13 points, including five of six free throws, and added two blocks and two late defensive rebounds in a satisfying 114-108 Bulls victory over the Golden State Warriors. They might have played their best ball of the season despite the absence of Luol Deng, Ben Gordon and Kirk Hinrich.
In one four-minute stretch, with the high-octane Warriors flying at the Bulls and the sellout crowd in a frenzy, Thomas scored on a layup, hit a reverse runner, a turnaround hook, a 17-footer when it looked like no one else wanted a shot and four straight free throws.
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