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...other seven players sitting back as play unfolded, Wendell staved off Corriero’s advance while Natalie Darwitz dashed in to take possession and, with the Crimson skaters slow to react, coasted straight through neutral ice and across the blue line. Harvard co-captain Angela Ruggiero backpedaled to defend along the left side, but the speedy Darwitz slipped behind her and into open space...
...nine for the honor—found sophomore Charlie Johnson hugging the opposite post behind Black Bears’ netminder Jimmy Howard. A quick tip from Johnson placed the puck squarely on Reese’s tape at the right circle with no one in position to defend...
...would saunter in his $2,000 suits, bantering with TV reporters; Genovese family boss Vincent (Chin) Gigante, feigning dementia, would wander through Greenwich Village in his bathrobe and slippers. The American public, fed on spicy tales of colorful men who rose from poverty to power and used violence to defend their honor, demanded star quality in its bad guys. Gotti and Gigante provided it. The suspicion is that both men bought dangerously into the Mafia movie myth. They wanted to be the wiseguys with lethal charm, the types who get immortalized onscreen by the "O Team"--Brando, De Niro, Pacino...
...President fulfilled his biblical responsibility: he ignored both prophets, who then amped their rants and wrote books (these days, prophets are not averse to profits). And as with Clinton, the subsequent brouhahas have revealed the most distinctly unpleasant-and not very righteous-side of the President. Unable to defend his policies in a coherent way and unwilling to acknowledge his mistakes, Bush responds to criticism with ugliness...
...doesn't mess around, either. On the day after Clarke first made his charge on 60 Minutes that before 9/11 the White House had minimized the terrorism threat, it sent out its biggest gun-the Vice President of the United States-to defend its performance. And where did Bush send Cheney to make the response on the most crucial issue of this presidency? There were many respectable forums available...