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...plenty of chances and didn’t generate enough shots. When we did get shots, though, their goalie got stronger as the game went on and made some big saves in the third.”Those missed opportunities to mount a comeback would present themselves again in the third period as the Crimson struggled to overcome a 4-1 deficit. Though Harvard out-shot Brown 17-3 in the closing period and 34-20 in the game, the Bears’ defense managed to clear the puck quickly and pressured the Crimson into taking hurried shots.Brown...
...with woeful Penn (3-15, 0-3 Ivy) on Friday night. Then junior guard Emily Tay, who shredded the Quakers’ defense all night, found one last, all-important hole and buried a jumper with 14 ticks left to seal the Crimson’s furious 63-62 comeback win over visiting Penn. Tay’s last-minute heroics—made possible after a Lindsay Hallion steal off an inbounds pass with 26 seconds left—gave Harvard (10-8, 3-1 Ivy) its only lead of the night. “It?...
...calculating Romney, there were just too many variables at play. If his campaign was represented by the Pats, and they blew it, then he could too. If his campaign was the New York Giants, the underdogs trying to make a last-minute comeback, then he had betrayed his adopted state and again opened himself up to loser status, not to mention further charges of flip-flopping. And then there was the fundamental nature of football, where a fumble can swing a season, where two-minute drills create dynasties, and missed field goals end careers. There was only one safe route...
...dressed the King. As Elvis Presley's costumer in the late '60s and '70s, Bill Belew conceived the trademark belts and jumpsuits in which Elvis made his comeback. With names like Burning Love and the Peacock Suit, the ornate, tall-collared, bell-bottomed pieces?made after Elvis asked for a loose stage garment similar to the one he wore for karate?inspired similar ensembles for such acts as the Jackson Five and the Osmonds. Belew...
John McCain's presidential campaign has no shortage of sophisticated political consultants. There's Steve Schmidt, who masterminded Arnold Schwarzenegger's comeback in California; veteran strategist Charlie Black, whose counsel has found an ear in every Republican White House since Reagan; Mark McKinnon, the political advertising genius who made John Kerry's wind surfing famous; Mark Salter, McCain's co-author, speechwriter and id; and Rick Davis, a successful lobbyist and Washington sage. They've all been with the campaign since it began, and they all survived its implosion last summer; the only thing that really took...