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After years of being the guy behind the songs, Tomlin is poised to achieve that more Prince-like status as well. He won a bunch of Dove Awards (the Christian Grammys) this year. He's all over Christian radio. And he's a huge draw at the big annual student gatherings known as Passion conferences. But Tomlin doesn't want to be Prince. Music immortality is fine. It's just not the sort he cares about...
...After struggling in recent weeks, the Harvard defensive secondary came together with a strong performance. On the first fumble, junior cornerback Steve Williams showed he could do more than just play coverage. After Berg forced the ball free, it looked to be going out of bounds when Williams dove to push the ball away from the sideline and into the arms of senior safety Danny Tanner.Williams and Tanner also teamed up later in the game: on a deep throw into Harvard territory, Williams stayed with his man and batted away the pass into the arms of Tanner. The corner also...
...Despite its reputation for offensive fireworks, the Crimson’s biggest play of the game proved to be on defense. With Harvard up 1-0 not five minutes later, junior goalkeeper Adam Hahn foiled what would be the Big Green’s best scoring opportunity, as he dove with arms fully outstretched and just tipped a Dartmouth shot wide of the net. “He made one of the best, if not the best, save[s] I’ve seen in my career,” Altchek said. In addition to that save, the Harvard defense...
...Republican, Mike DeWine, had put up a spot that called into question Democrat Sherrod Brown's record on national security, using a smudged, smoking, slightly distorted image of the World Trade Center terrorist attack. The thrust of the ad was accurate: Brown is a mortal dove who repeatedly voted against increases in the intelligence budget. And the attack had been expected. "Our candidates were really worried about how to counter the Republicans on national security," says J.B. Poersch, executive Director of the DSCC. "It's what worked against...
...vote on whether pot should be legalized for medical purposes. Georgians may choose to amend their constitution to require that the state preserve its "tradition of fishing and hunting." And in Michigan, embroiled in controversy over the 2004 lifting of a 99-year ban on the hunting of mourning doves, voters get a shot at reinstating it. The reputedly monogamous dove is, by resolution of the legislature, the state "Bird of Peace...