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...another try at the now-significantly underprotected Harvard goaltender. “They didn’t [notice],” Richter said. “I started yelling at them...because [the Bulldogs] were getting the puck there, it was like, ‘Oh my god, blow the whistle!’” Just a couple of minutes later, Richter made what he thought was an impressive glove save, freezing his glove in midair in order to frame it. The puck, however, had not in fact remained in his glove, and was instead perched precariously...
...extravagant foreign tours to publicize his book or beg for more aid are hardly helpful in fighting terrorism. Musharraf’s political ambitions have led to many serious lapses and failures in the War on Terror: Rashid Rauf, a high profile terrorist involved in a failed attempt to blow up transatlantic planes, escaped from Pakistani police custody. Militants have been capturing forts and have intercepted NATO’s supplies. A radical mosque built up a brigade of terrorists adjacent to the Pakistan Intelligence’s building in Islamabad, the capital. The intelligence agencies...
...able to get a lead and grow it,” Scholl said. “We were playing from behind trying to tie it up. Even when we did get momentum and a lead, we let them hang around.” Then Zarins delivered the final blow for Siena, but not before the Crimson had taken four shots on goal.“Their goalie had a really good game, in my opinion,” Scholl said. “He would save the ball and get it right up and out of the stick...
...Labour Party's heartlands. But the longer-term political cost to the government is likely to be very severe. Governments, like financial centers, need to be jealous of their reputation. The U.K.'s reputation as a financial center is sufficiently soundly based for it to recover from the blow inflicted by the Northern Rock affair. Whether the government's reputation can recover is far more doubtful...
...whole, first-year college students participate in significantly less exercise than they did just one year before. Academic demands and lack of organized sports are certainly part of the problem. A bigger part may be a curious human tendency to look at life changes as an occasion to blow up the old rules and not create new ones in their place. This is especially so when it comes to staying fit. "College is the first big transition in life," Bray says. "And it becomes an excuse not to exercise...