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...Galluccio had 985 transfers, which partially helped Maher eke out a victory over dark horse DeBergalis...
...cast aside this conventional wisdom and embraced students as an untapped resource, canvassing dormitories at Harvard and MIT and shaping his platform around student-friendly issues such as late-night restaurant hours and bicycle safety. A month before Election Day in 2003, longtime local pundit Robert Winters said the dark horse candidate didn’t “have a chance in hell.” But as early votes came in, fresh-faced “DeBerg” was on the cusp of a stunning upset.DeBergalis eventually fell behind after the subsequent ballot counts; Cambridge?...
...nation, with the Bulldogs, Golden Gophers, and Wisconsin all duking it out for automatic entires to the Frozen Eight. Back in New England, the Crimson will play a home-and-home series with the up-and-coming Wildcats from the University of New Hampshire, many experts’ dark-horse pick to go all the way.MINNESOTAThe Golden Gophers lost their mythic All-World line of U.S. Olympians Krissy Wendell, Natalie Darwitz, and Kelly Stephens and the effects are showing already. Minnesota has dropped as many games—two—in the early going...
...worth a mention. Waugh's probably never heard of Ernest Hemingway's theory of omission, which is basically that prose reads better when the obvious is left out. Hemingway would have choked on Waugh's cavalcade of superfluous adjectives, and on sentences like, "Failure can lead you into a dark abyss of gloom and depression." But then Hemingway couldn't play the cut shot like Waugh did. The original target was 100,000 words. But after a year writing in longhand at his dining-room table, Waugh emerged with a manuscript twice that size. Some would sooner take their chances...
...can’t remember whether this has been our second or third time around [this neighborhood],” Murphy says.“Second,” Field replies.Knocking on doors is not hard—that is, once you find them. In the increasing darkness, locating the right door—especially in multi-family homes and larger complexes—requires more than a little campaign strategy. Murphy and Field search around corners, through alleys, and even up a secluded flight of stairs behind a doorway in order to find the entrances to the housing units.Many...