Word: bearings
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Though the Brown Bears (2-14-4, 2-8-3 ECACHL) had beaten only one other team this year, the Harvard men’s hockey team (7-10-3, 6-7-2) is now victim number two, as the Crimson lost 4-2 on Friday night at Meehan Auditorium despite out-shooting an opponent which has struggled to put pucks in the net all season.In a game marked by intense checking, some of it clean, and several controversial penalty calls, the teams combined for a whopping 19 penalties to fulfill clichés about the similarities between boxing...
...identified the bombers, but members of two groups - the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and the al-Aqsa Brigades - jointly claimed credit for the suicide bombing and released videos of two supposed bombers. But one Israeli official says the faces in the video seem to bear no resemblance to the dead bombers. Abou Fouad, an al Aqsa Brigades spokesman, told a press conference in Gaza that "the attack had been planned for a month, but was only made possible after gunmen bombed the fence...
...final State of the Union address on Jan. 28, President George W. Bush may have been thinking about his future legacy. But the speech felt more like a blast from the past. Not only did it bear a striking thematic resemblance to his 2003 address, but the word tally from each speech is very similar. A side-by-side comparison...
...much nowhere to go but up from his current 34% in the polls. The war is improving and it looks as if there will be a steady drawdown of troops over the next 12 months. And even if his diplomatic initiatives, like the Arab-Israeli peace effort, don't bear fruit, he'll get some points for trying...
...plans still have to be approved by the E.U.'s 27 governments and the European Parliament, and the Commission can expect resistance from rich E.U. member-states such as France and Germany, who will be asked to bear the brunt of the emissions-cutting targets. By contrast, new and poorer countries in central and eastern Europe will be allowed to increase their emissions by up to 20% from 2005 levels, reflecting their desire to catch up with the higher standard of living in western Europe...