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...teams’ first meeting in November at Walter Brown Arena, BU won 3-0. The second contest was in the Fleet Center on the opening night of the Beanpot. Despite scoring first, the Crimson again fell to BU, this time 2-1. The difference between the two contests: defensive pressure...
...difference between perimeter and point-blank shots was apparent against Cornell. Facing the best goaltender in the country, Dave LeNeveu, and the Big Red’s suffocating defense, Harvard settled for perimeter shots for the first half of the contest. And a good goaltender like LeNeveu or BU’s Sean Fields—one of the best netminders in Hockey East—will stop that first shot...
...optimistic scenario for a quick and relatively painless victory over Saddam's forces appears to be receding, as the "shock-and-awe" concept gives way to a more conventional contest of division-strength armored formations. Despite Iraqi resistance, it's a showdown that can only have one outcome - but what may well be decided in the coming days is the time-frame and human cost of regime-change in Iraq...
...sandstorm that stopped the U.S. march on Baghdad is ebbing, but Iraqi resistance remains fierce along the approaches to the capital. As both sides maneuvered Wednesday for advantage in what will be the decisive contest of "Operation Iraqi Freedom," U.S. officials warn that the battle for Baghdad may be a clash of brutal intensity, in light of the tenacious Iraqi resistance that has greeted coalition forces in southern and central Iraq...
...some cases the relationship between patient and caregiver can take on the character of a duel, wits on one side, willpower on the other. Eleanor Cooney's mother was brilliant and glamorous, a successful novelist who once won a beauty contest judged by Frank Sinatra. In Death in Slow Motion (HarperCollins; 251 pages), Cooney chronicles her mother's gradual, grinding dissolution--"death's warm-up act," Cooney calls it--describing the hallucinations and the circular conversations, the fits of rage and neediness that wreck her own life and get her mother kicked out of her nursing home...