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...first overtime period to put the Crimson ahead for the first time since the 4:24 mark of the second quarter. The goal came as the result of an odd series of events, as a referee had apparently blown the whistle, causing most of the players to stop. Amidst the confusion, Kennifer alertly grabbed the ball and deposited into the net for a goal...
...good to bend the law for a quick buck or two. In the movie the officers are brought together for the first time on a mission to find and stop the homicidal drug baron Reese Feldman, the somewhat charismatic villain played by actor Vince Vaughn. Amidst killing his adversaries, juggling his lovers, and planning his daughter’s bat mitzvah, Feldman is about to bank out on his biggest deal yet with an undetectable strain of coke. With the help of Hutch’s street-smart, illicit informant Huggy Bear (aptly played...
...Amidst the final stretch of 2003—an odd time in collegiate winter sports when games are few and far between—St. Lawrence dropped a game to Connecticut and then a few weeks later to Brown. But since winter break the Saints have put together an eight-game win streak, capped by the impressive victories over Dartmouth...
...left with nothing but our thoughts, echoing noisily in the caverns of our oversized craniums. And yet, this is exactly the sort of thing that religious folk and philosophers have always done. Prayer, meditation, and deep self-reflection require a stillness that is hard to find amidst the hubbub of the world outside. That’s probably why monks escaped to monasteries and philosophers shut themselves up in studies with big armchairs...
...thefacebook.com, too! Clicking away late one night I couldn’t help thinking how different these images were to those that would fill an official facebook, filled with Harvard ID photos resembling deer in headlights, stunned squirrels and other expressions of terrified confusion caught on film amidst the chaos of freshman week. Instead, the thefacebook.com scene includes reams of carefully coiffed, immaculately manicured, evening-garbed Harvard students grinning eagerly on page after page as we present our own ideal image of selfhood to fellow browsers. And there’s more hotties to be found hooked...