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Pressure, what pressure? Shaun White, 19, the Michael Jordan of the half-pipe (the 16-ft.-deep mountainside trench in which snowboarders do their tricks), muffed a landing on his first qualifying run, a potential knockout blow that would have shocked his sport. But only a blizzard could keep that shaggy red mane off the podium. To clear his head, the "Flying Tomato" took a few easy rides with his coach between turns and then rocked the rest of the field when he got back in the pipe...
...Agassiz neighborhood of its intent to store dangerous chemicals. “What I want to know is what the bottomline worst scenario could be,” said resident Carol Wienhaus last night at the Baldwin school where the meeting was held. “Could the building blow up?” Eric Martin, Harvard’s technical director of the Center for Nanoscale Systems, which will be the building’s chief occupant, attempted to minimize fears about the lab, saying that the activity there would occur on a very “human scale...
...committee post meant an almost 90% pay cut, but Shockey's lobbying firm helped cushion the blow. Copeland, Lowery, Jacquez-where Lewis?s close friend Bill Lowery, a former California congressman, is a partner-gave Shockey a $600,000 going-away buyout, according to Shockey?s financial disclosure form. He was to receive his buyout in three $200,000 payments scheduled for February, May and August 2005-even as he was in his committee post. The firm would also keep Shockey in the family by hiring his wife, Alexandra-another former Lewis aide-as a consulting lobbyist...
...great for women’s hockey and certainly hockey in Boston,” Stone said. “Four really good schools; that’s what we wanted all along. Believe me, I would much rather play BC in a tight game than blow somebody out and win a championship. It ends up having that flair and mystique of the Men’s Beanpot. So I hope all the Beanpots from here on in are tight one-goal games or go to overtime...
...Tigers took the blow and hung around, regaining the advantage on Koncz’s fifth long ball of the game, but another quick 12-3 Crimson run, capped by Beal’s driving three-point play, made the score 51-43 in Harvard’s favor with 5:11 to play. It was then that Princeton began its fateful comeback...