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...Harvard goes into this season with a chip on its collective shoulder following its memorable quadruple-overtime loss in the NCAA Tournament to Wisconsin, the No. 1 ranked team in the country and eventual national champion...
...previous career best, and junior defenseman Jack Christian and co-captain Dave MacDonald scored goals for the first time in their collegiate careers. Not even five minutes into the game, the Crimson vaulted onto the scoreboard with Christian’s goal. Senior forward Paul Dufault caught a chip from freshman forward Matt McCollem, who directed it to Christian for a low shot that whipped past SLU goalie Alex Petizian.“We started the game much better and stayed focused throughout,” senior forward Dave Watters said.The Saints’ best chance at recovering from...
...like those in the Indiana Jones and Back to the Future series to thrillers like The Sixth Sense and critics' faves Schindler's List and Seabiscuit. Their shared filmography adds up to more than $5 billion at the U.S. box office. This year the Kennedy/Marshall Co. produced the blue-chip franchise flick The Bourne Ultimatum and two ambitious independent films with Oscar buzz, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly and Persepolis. They're also at work on a some of 2008's most anticipated movies, including the fourth Indiana Jones installment and a Brad Pitt-Cate Blanchett epic romance called...
Every time I uncap a beer - and I do so often from April to October, televised baseball being the primary pastime where I live in New England - the bottle opener plays the radio call of the Red Sox 2004 World Series win. The opener has an electronic chip inside that makes removing a cap almost operatic, the way Sox left fielder Manny Ramirez does when running the bases - throwing off his helmet as if it were filled with angry hornets...
...majority's reliance on the U.S. Constitution's Eighth Amendment prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment. Criminal defense attorneys often cite the language in seeking their client's release, but are rarely successful. In recent years, the U.S. Supreme Court has relied on the Eight Amendment to steadily chip away at the death penalty in recent decisions barring the execution of juvenile offenders and the mentally ill. But even the harshest prison sentences are rarely reversed...