Word: counterattacks
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After the second corner of the half, Harvard nearly came up with a winning counterattack. Freshman keeper Katie Zacarian, who had a streak of three consecutive shutouts before Saturday, kicked the ball out to senior midfielder Liz Sarles, who passed ahead to junior forward Jane Park streaking down the right sideline...
Five minutes later, co-captain Maisa Badawy intercepted a Tiger pass in the Harvard end and passed up to McDavitt on the counterattack. The ball found its way to junior forward Eliza Dick and senior forward Kate Nagle, who nearly succeeded in passing the ball around Baril, but they were unable to connect and the ball went across the open...
...made a few mistakes that played right into their hands," said Harvard Coach Jim Floerchinger. "UMass is a team that's very good in its counterattack and not as good in the half-court, but we didn't play at the right pace to take advantage of that...
...Bush gets viciously personal, Gore will be able to mount a devastating counterattack. Edit in your mind a quick-cut television ad showing George W. Bush groping for the names of heads of state, garbling sentences, saying "hostile" when he means "hostage" - a procession of he's-not-ready moments that would reinforce the most damaging rap against Bush (he's not smart enough) and emphasize Al Gore's strength...
...charter-school advocates knew they would face resistance, but they did not expect the full-throttle counterattack they got. The first hitch occurred when the state education department took a full six months after the new law was adopted to issue 12 pages of onerous rules and regulations governing Arkansas charter schools. Even at that pace, lobbyists for the state's school boards, administrators and teachers protested that the process was moving too quickly. The bureaucratic delay left Brothers and his allies barely three months to identify an appropriate school site, draw up policies for admissions, personnel and attendance, hold...