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...mistakes is by having a great performance in the net, and Kyle’s given us that so far this season.”Friday’s contest will go down as an easy 3-0 win, but it was, until the end, a 1-0 pressure cooker, and Richter kept his composure throughout the game, turning back 28 Engineers shots.“Nothing needs to be said about Kyle Richter,” co-captain and defenseman Dave MacDonald said, adding, “Any [chances] they got, he was just playing confidently, and it?...
...been followed by a thaw that saw detained activists released and a lightening of the heavy hand of control over the media and Internet. This time, though, Bequelin says, it could be different: "By trying to push so hard now, the government is closing the lid on a pressure cooker. People won't allow those hard-won gains in rights against the arbitrary power of the state to be rolled back." With more than 3,000 years of literary tradition behind them, it's no surprise that the Chinese people might finally want to start defining the meaning...
...Harvard had its disadvantages, and the students readily acknowledged the pressure-cooker atmosphere they felt while on campus. Salahudeen noticed that he didn’t sleep as much as he used to and found that he hung out with people less often than he had at Tulane. “I missed hanging out with my friends, eating crawfish,” he says...
...Often, along their way from Eastern and Western Europe, the migrants - sometimes 50 at a time - are herded into safe houses where they must wait for the right conditions to continue their trip. Besides packets of instant noodles and a rice cooker, there's not much in the way of furnishings. "Staying there is the toughest part," says the snakehead. "When you're in the house, it's easy to get depressed because you have time to think about your family and the things that might go wrong." He estimates that 10% of people crack. They are taken...
...Recycling Old Tricks Stockman appears to be a serial book cooker. Even after he admitted during the Reagan Administration to playing games with how much came in and how much went out, he can't stop himself from doing it again. In The Triumph of Politics, he describes two tricks the Reaganites (including himself) used to deceive the public about the fiscal condition of the U.S. government. One was the "magic asterisk," used to bury wishful-thinking revenue assumptions in the footnotes, where it was hoped that nobody would discover them. This is essentially similar to the "round trip" loans...