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After the seventh game, Harvard received another blow. Senior midfielder Kristen Bowes was out for the season with a stress fracture. Three weeks ago, junior back Jaime Chu suffered a knee injury, ending her season...
...Paris, Grasso had set up an open line to the exchange from his room in the luxurious Hotel de Crillon, where he was host of a dinner. Grasso found himself giving a blow-by-blow account of developments in New York to his guests. "It made for an exciting dinner," says Grasso. But a forgettable meal. He barely touched the exquisitely prepared lamb that had been placed in front of him. He was scheduled to fly to Cairo on Tuesday but returned promptly to New York. "It was clear," he says, "that we were going to have another test...
...Sure enough, right at detonation, the Trading Goddess rings and whispers those three little words: "Don't blow it." She was alluding to 10 years ago, when I failed to buy in the last decade's most famous October buying opportunity. My toughest critic/guardian angel unflinchingly said, "Stand there with a bushel basket as stocks come in." What stocks? I wanted names. Too late. She was engrossed in a dot-to-dot with our three-year- old. "I'll leave something to you," she said, and the crystal ball went dark. I would only have a few minutes...
Brown's monologue, pivotal, since it relates the dismemberment of Pentheus--which was, wink-wink, the denouement--manages to avoid Joe Friday prosaics. It has of course a blow-by-blow, factual aspect, but Brown illuminates its sorrow and terror...
...They scored in the first half, but we were dominating. It seemed like we were going to take over at any moment," McLaughlin said. "But then they scored 27 seconds in to the second half and it was a knockout blow. We were like, 'Are you kidding...