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...outshooting the Crimson, 4-0. The difference in the game, however, came on penalty corners. The Tigers were awarded four in the overtime period alone, including one that resulted in the game-winning goal. Princeton’s Donovan was waiting by the left corner of the net to deflect a shot off the stick of her teammate Paige Schmidt. Donovan was able to put the shot past Stone into the back-right corner of the net, sealing the victory for the Tigers. For the game, Princeton outshot Harvard, 19-6, and had 14 penalty corners to the Crimson?...
CONTEXT Attempting to deflect speculation that he would be a hands-on First Husband, former President Bill Clinton told ABC's George Stephanopoulos on Sept. 30 that Hillary "will be the policymaker, the decider...
...preseason All-American junior Andrew Berry and 2006 second team All-Ivy senior Steven Williams, strutted their stuff on the field, combining for eight tackles—one for a loss—and four pass breakups. Berry nearly had an interception in the endzone and Williams leapt to deflect a potential 40-yard completion to a seemingly open receiver. But Randolph picked on inexperienced sophomore defensive backs Derrick Barker and Ben Jenkins once Berry and Williams closed the door with their solid coverage, including on the 40-yard game-winning touchdown that sailed over Jenkins’ head...
...much there is to go around. In recent days, some Republicans have begun to argue that the U.S. did everything it promised militarily in Iraq and that the Iraqis and their government are the ones dropping the ball. It's an appealing story line designed primarily to help Republicans deflect the heat for a mission that did not turn out as planned. That has always been an advantage of the surge, after all: when it was unveiled last winter, it was difficult to tell if the new tactic was really a blueprint for the final victory or just a holding...
...Giuliani is running for President, and he has apparently made a tactical decision to thunder loudly about terrorism, perhaps to deflect from his personal life and his liberal record on social issues - which an internal campaign memo termed potentially "insurmountable" last year. (The memo was leaked to the New York Daily News.) The more he can remind people of his performance on 9/11, the better off he is, says G.O.P. pollster Luntz. "You cannot underestimate the impact of having seen him on television hour after hour dealing with the tragedy," he says. "That gives him a level of credibility that...