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...either of those players--or any of their nine teammates who have notched goals this year--can break the Crimson's bad luck on offense, Harvard would be in good position for a victory with backstop Cheryl Gunther...
...that point, Northeastern decided to hand the ball over to backup catcher Dan Connolly. The backstop made his first career appearance on the other side of the plate, and promptly gave up an RBI bloop single to Shakir. Lentz' sacrifice fly later in the inning accounted for the final margin...
...firewall came tumbling down. George W. Bush's early endorsement by John Engler, the Michigan governor who's hugely popular among the state's Republicans, was hailed as a backstop against any insurgent anti-Bush campaign. But as the Texas governor has learned the hard way, Republican support isn't everything in an open primary. John McCain won Michigan by turning out an unprecedented number of voters, with a majority of them being independents and Democrats. And, as it turns out, Engler's endorsement may have hurt Bush by helping mobilize Democrats who oppose the Michigan governor. "Shame...
...flames and sparks, all four leading candidates have a way of sounding a lot like Clinton as they leave ideological purity to Gary Bauer and Alan Keyes and trundle down the center of the field. Bush and Gore both call for the deployment of faith-based organizations to backstop government; Bradley and McCain share examples of campaign-finance abominations. By last week, McCain was even borrowing Gore's class-war vocabulary to attack Bush's tax plan. Both sides have ceded ground: the Democrats are each pushing health-care plans that, in their level of ambition, do not come close...
Harvard showed its only signs of revival in the second period after senior winger Scott Turco notched the Crimson's first goal on a pass from sophomore center Jared Cantanucci, wristing a shot from the right face-off circle through traffic to hit the backstop. That goal made the score 1-1 at 15:35 of the second...