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With the increased number of women’s hockey teams, the tournament should become more competitive, with a less obvious eventual champion. By allowing more than just the top four teams, the championship will now have room for a dark horse or a team on the bubble in terms of being one of the current top four teams in the nation...
...Bala’s world was shaken up like a snow-globe with the late-June, three-team trade that plucked him from the friendly confines of his native Northeast and the Ottawa Senators, he’s settling into his new role with the defending AHL (Calder Cup) champion Houston Aeros, the AHL affiliate of his new team, the Minnesota Wild...
Describing the passage of the 1957 Civil Rights Bill as Johnson’s “greatest accomplishment,” Caro called him the greatest white champion of civil rights since Abraham Lincoln...
...champion innovator in the molecular genetics of mice and has a great track record of moving between fields,” Meister said...
...Japan had just bombed Pearl Harbor, and the Republic of China was struggling to resist the invading forces of imperial Japan. Soong Mei-ling, then 45 and the wife of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, happened to be in the U.S. for medical reasons. Seizing the opportunity to champion her country's cause, she summoned all her energy and flashing-eyed eloquence to the task of urging the U.S. to side with her embattled land. For seven months, Madame Chiang, as she was best known in the West, seemed to be everywhere: speaking at Madison Square Garden, traveling to San Francisco...