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...Quinn, however, could not silence the energized Crimson much longer. When Edwards received a pass from freshman midfielder Ladd Fritz and drilled a low cross into the box, a wide-open Kelly dove headfirst and redirected the ball into the left corner...
...down and five from the 48-yard line with just under three minutes to play. Rahne dropped back to pass and rifled the ball to wide receiver Tim Hermann, who scampered in for the devastating touchdown. The play was inches from being broken up, though, as a Crimson defender dove to deflect the ball and missed...
...69th minute, however, the lead almost disappeared. Eagles sophomore forward Casey Schmidt lobbed a shot from 10 yards out and Mejias dove intuitively to his left for the crucial and incredible save...
...grand Texan tradition, George W. Bush, during his run for the Texan governorship, headed off into the woods in the middle of dove shooting season with rifle on shoulder and a pack of reporters following close upon his heels--no doubt to showcase his closeness to nature and the common man. In fact, Bush did shoot and bag a bird. Unfortunately, the bird had the audacity not to be a dove, but a killdee--a member of an endangered species no less...
...only the well-known good Bobby and bad Bobby--the saint and the bully--but all the Bobbys, like cats in a bag: the punk with the resourceful instincts of a statesman (see the Cuban missile crisis or the civil rights struggle in the South), the hawk and the dove, the liberal and the conservative, the plunger and the temporizer, the youthful McCarthyite, the knight of the New Age, the scowlingly obsessive hater (Castro, Hoffa) who was also a friend of animals, children and poets...