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...clutch performer who recorded 35 tackles last season, Niemczak transplants his hard-nosed linebacking style to the secondary, threatening receivers who dare to come across the middle with punishing tackles...
Schweitzer propelled Harvard into the tiebreak with a clutch kill followed by an ace. The Crimson had a 27-22 lead in the fourth game and seemed on its way to coast to victory. However, Furman ran off five of the next six points—three of which came off Harvard miscues—before the Crimson shut the door...
Harvard’s clutch performance in game four came on the heels of a heartbreaking game three loss. Leading 27-23 in the third, the Crimson dropped five of six points, knotting the score at 28. After Tiger middle blocker Julia Fredrickson’s serve went long, the Crimson had an opportunity to serve for the game. However, Towson blocked a Harvard kill attempt and then registered two kills of its own to take a 2-1 lead in the match...
...Catholics around me, afflicted by disease and sadness, have faces full of hope. While they clutch the wheelchairs of elderly, infirm parents in one hand and their rosaries in the other, they are thinking only of the good that religion might do. Only I am moved to cry—the agnostic backpacker who thinks of French Catholicism as a long tradition of killing Huguenots, persecuting Jews and building gorgeous cathedrals on the backs of peasants...
...walk down Tanjong Pagar in Chinatown on Friday or Saturday night, the gay (or straight) visitor will be impressed by the vivacity of the area: a clutch of discos, bars and restaurants, with guys and gals in their hundreds wandering from one rowdy place to another, often arm in arm (although kissing in public seems to still be taboo, even in gay venues). Gay life is not confined to a pink ghetto, though. There's a lively disco at Centro, opposite the venerable Fullerton hotel, that stages a gay event on Sunday nights just a short walk from the High...