Word: broking
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...Penn's victory broke a 10-game Harvard win streak over the Quakers dating back to the 1993-94 season...
Next only to Vermeer, De Hooch (rhymes with broke, not pooch) was the greatest Dutch genre artist of the 17th century. Very little is known about his life. He was born in Rotterdam in 1629. He learned painting by apprenticeship there, probably to Nicolaes Berchem. By 1655 his name shows up on the rolls of the artists' guild in Delft. There he must have known the slightly younger Johannes Vermeer. Five years later, he was working in Amsterdam. He married and had seven children. None of his letters survive, and no drawings either. In 1684 he died in a madhouse...
White's wild assertions about the Republican record on civil rights compel a response. His hate-filled diatribe ignores the fact that it was Republicans, led by Senator Everett Dirksen of Illinois, who broke the Democrat filibuster delaying the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and that without Republican votes, neither it nor the Voting Rights Act of 1965 would have become law. White's naked partisanship also ignores the 4 million Americans who have been given a fresh start, liberated from lives of dependency on welfare by Republican reforms in social programs. What ought to trouble...
...University law professor Jonathan Turley was asked by an MSNBC anchorman last week to identify the winners and losers of the past year, there was one name conspicuously absent from Turley's list: Jonathan Turley. For of all the pundits who have achieved talk-show celebrity since the scandal broke, Turley--a liberal academic with anti-Clintonian views and a background in environmental law and constitutional criminal procedure--was the biggest winner. During one gravity-defying stretch, he appeared on at least one of the influential Sunday-morning shows for 10 straight weeks. He was a guest at various times...
...meanwhile, heads to New York with the ECAC's second-best defense, allowing 1.43 goals per contest. Freshman goaltender Alison Kuusisto--who made the ECAC Honor Roll last week after a career-high 38 saves against Brown--will make her eighth and ninth starts since junior netminder Crystal Springer broke her collarbone. Kuusisto has a 1.96 GAA and a .900 save percentage...