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Harvard followed with a 15-play, clock-eating drive that resulted in a 23-yard field goal and increased its lead to seven. The Crimson converted its first three third first downs on the drive, including a key swing pass to Noah Van Niel that the senior fullback advanced past the sticks with a big second effort...
...normal.“Saturday’s torture for football coaches, night games are just torture,” Murphy said. “Why? Because, as coaches—and I think players—we’d play the thing at 9 o’clock in the morning if they’d let us, because, you just want to play. So to have to sit and watch games on television—you don’t enjoy them—it’s agony.”The players, however, seem less...
...Slattery and Salahudeen’s fears were realized when Hurricane Katrina, which formed over the Bahamas on August 23, slammed into the Gulf Coast on August 29. The subject of around-the-clock television news coverage, it was one of the deadliest and the costliest natural disasters in American history, killing more than 1,800 people and generating about $80 billion in damage. In addition, Louisiana’s commissioner of higher education estimated that 80,000 students were displaced by Katrina and, one month later, Hurricane Rita...
...horse head is a particularly symbolic artifact to China. It was one of 12 pieces representing the Chinese zodiac that were crafted by Jesuit missionaries. They sat atop sculptures of human bodies to form a water clock in the Summer Palace, the home of the royal family. The clock, which was designed so each head would spout water for two hours each day and all would spray in unison at noon, was said to be a favorite of the Qianlong emperor...
...French statements are warning the world that a clock is ticking on the Iran "crisis," although the countdown is on the remaining 16 months of President Bush's tenure rather than anything happening during that time in Iran's nuclear program, which remains a number of years away from the capability of building a bomb. A mounting tide of reports has suggested that President Bush does not want to leave office without having prevented Iran from attaining the means to build nuclear weapons - and if that outcome cannot be achieved through diplomatic pressure, the reports suggest, then he is prepared...