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...field falls on Odorczyk, who helps her goaltender direct the defense. However, she is much more than a leader. “Laura is one of our most athletic players,” Shields said. “She is always in good position and is almost never beaten in a one on one situation.” Shields herself is the center of the team’s third defensive crux, communication. “[Shields] is the general out there,” Erickson said. “One of our biggest successes as a team is that...
...career rushing record with 124 yards and a touchdown in a 37-14 win over Fordham.FOURTH AND FOURHarvard lost in Ithaca for the first time since a 28-27 defeat in October of 1995...The win over the No. 20 Crimson was the first time the Big Red has beaten a ranked team since joining Division I-AA in 1982...Cornell quarterback Ryan Kuhn’s 21-yard strike to wide receiver Brian Romney was his first passing touchdown of the season...Sophomore Harvard kicker Matt Schindel had his second extra-point attempt of the game blocked...
...stock market has a brutal way of making even the smartest people look foolish. Just ask Bill Miller, America's most celebrated mutual fund manager, whose Legg Mason Value Trust has beaten the S&P 500 stock index for 14 years running. A brilliant polymath whose intellectual passions range from chaos theory to Wittgenstein, Miller has trounced his rivals by thinking differently. But lately the investor, who is based in Baltimore, Md., has looked a tad less clever. In the past two years, oil and gas stocks surged as the price of oil nearly tripled...
...quickly pumped up the familiar Microsoft versus [insert latest tech threat here] story. Sun?s CEO is the fallen tech star Scott McNealy, who seems to be obsessed with vanquishing Microsoft. Google, the game-changing upstart, is now led by a battle-worn veteran, Eric Schmidt, who has been beaten up a couple times by Microsoft himself, but lived to fight another...
...author flies from his home in Seattle back to visit his folks, various objects or sensations - an orange backpack or the smell of fast food - trigger flashbacks. These mostly center on the terror of living with an alcoholic, abusive father and a beaten mother. White masterfully evokes the milieu of the early 70s and hardscrabble folks that got married too young and gave up too much too soon. Fights would get bad enough that Shane spends stretches at a time with his grandmother, who takes him with her to the bar where she works. While she flirts with customers, making...