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...hard to come by to be able to give them up in bunches in that short a period of time.” THIRD TIME’S THE CHARM Harvard regrouped in the final frame, scoring twice to turn a three-goal blowout into a one-goal nail-biter. “Our best period of the year, hands down,” Reese said. The Crimson hit hard and forced St. Lawrence into its own zone for minutes on end. “I think we really established our forecheck, and that’s kind of what...
...first of her college career. Senior midfielder Aline Brown stole the ball in front of the Massachusetts net and passed to a streaking Ardery, who got past the Minutewomen goaltender and put the ball in the net. RHODE ISLAND 2, HARVARD 1 The Rams (2-2) won a nail-biter, beating the clock and Connolly with only 3.6 seconds left. The loss was especially tough for Harvard, as the Crimson, playing its season opener, had equalized the score only thirty seconds earlier. Junior back Devon Shapiro scored off a penalty corner with 36 seconds left in the game...
Nervous kids and obscure words are not the stuff of big-time TV, but this year's Scripps National Spelling Bee was an improbable nail-biter. One of the 13 finalists got reinstated after judges made a spelling error, a Canadian came in second--who knew foreign kids could compete?--and KATHARINE CLOSE, 13, prevailed in her fifth year. The eighth-grader from Spring Lake, N.J., won with ursprache. It means protolanguage. Now try to use it in conversation...
...Life,” borrowed liberally from another author’s work. So what? In the hip-hop world, this goes down all the time. The main question for all the chick-lit fans, and possibly the courts, is whether Viswanathan is a “biter,” or just standing on the shoulders of giants (if it’s fair to put author Megan McCafferty in the company of Hemingway and Proust).Word on the street is that Kaavya is somewhat of a hip-hop aficionado, so it’s possible she was merely...
...fantastic. The [second varsity] has been having rows of a superior quality,” Reid said. “And you can only credit the guys behind you for having the patience and the intuition to move it along like that.”After a disappointing nail-biter at Navy a week ago, the Crimson second varsity once again asserted itself in the second 1,000 meters. Harvard added yet more to its lead, establishing an open-water advantage by 1250 meters down. And the Crimson made it clear that any race on Saturday would...