Word: attacked
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Saturday, the offense stunningly obliterated all doubts as it unveiled an explosive, big-play attack in racking up a 24-7 win over Columbia. The Ivy League picture may have changed as the Crimson displayed an offense that is a threat to score on each play from scrimmage...
Murphy substituted senior tailback Troy Jones for senior Chris Menick. Jones, faster and more dynamic than the hard-nosed Menick, added a new dimension to the Harvard attack as he immediately gained eleven yards up the middle...
...11th birthday that he is really a wizard. What's more, he is famous throughout the wizard world; although his parents were murdered by the evil Lord Voldemort (so feared that he is referred to only as "He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named"), the infant Harry survived the attack with a lightning-bolt-shaped scar on his forehead...
Purdy's mind, however, is another matter. With the publication of his first book--For Common Things: Irony, Trust and Commitment in America Today (Knopf; 256 pages; $20)--the brainy nature boy has stormed the capital, panicking the languid sophisticates with an unfashionably passionate attack on the dangers of modern passionlessness. Reduced to simple headlines, Purdy's book is a precocious diatribe against the sort of media-savvy detachment that passes for intelligence and maturity in the age of Letter- man. "The ironic individual," he writes, "is a bit like Seinfeld without a script; at ease in banter, versed...
...vaccine that's used to inoculate children against chicken pox is being tested on older adults, and if it works as well as hoped, millions of aging baby boomers will be lining up for shots. As for me, I've crossed shingles off my worry list. Very likely the attack I endured has rendered me immune to another...