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...best. He and his three-piece band?a tabla drummer and rabab and harmonium players?were booked every night during the three-month wedding season prior to the holy month of Ramadan, when the partying stops. His crowning achievement came last September, when he won a famous singing contest at Kabul's Park Cinema. That day, Mirwais appeared in an immaculate white suit, handling the audience with the insouciance of a mite-sized Sinatra. His performance blew the other contestants off the stage...
Skating at 4-on-3 with fewer than seven minutes left in the contest, the Saints cranked up the offensive pressure and edged in on Crimson goalie Ali Boe in desperate need of a score. In their favor was the presence on the ice of Harvard sophomore Katie Johnston, who is inexperienced in the triangular penalty kill...
Junior Natalie Darwitz scored a mere 13 seconds into the contest and joined with Patty Kazmaier Award winner Krissy Wendell in dissecting Dartmouth (27-7-0) for a 7-2 win and the chance to repeat as national champs on Sunday...
Collins in turn earned his final opportunity of the contest four minutes later, intercepting a sloppy Harvard pass in the neutral zone, then breaking in on Grumet-Morris all by himself down the lefthand side of the ice. But as he approached, he briefly bobbled the puck, allowing the Crimson backstop to reach out with his stick to break up the play before a shot ever materialized...
...nailed down the last spot with her performance in net, making 36 saves over the course of two games on 41 shots faced. She held the Saints to a single score in the semifinals while shutting them out over the last 39-plus minutes of the contest. In falling to Minnesota, she nevertheless held the Gophers below their season scoring average and twice fell prey to turnovers by her defense in the zone...