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Most of the season, the Crimson struggledgreatly with power play opportunities. In January,Harvard suffered from a power play drought ofalmost 30 chances before junior Scott Turco brokethe streak against Union...
...Both teams used full-court pressure effectively the entire evening, but it seemed most helpful to the Crimson's cause. Yale held a slim, 30-28 lead at halftime and came out hot in the second half, while Harvard suffered a brief scoring drought. Unable to convert baskets, the Crimson was consequently unable to press, and the Bulldogs capitalized on the opportunity to build their 10-point lead...
Senior defensemen Ben Storey has recovered nicely from his hip pointer, gaining an assist last week against Cornell. And sophomore forward Chris Bala is back in the action, ending his scoring drought of over two months, when he scored a power play goal against Colgate...
When Hertsgaard travels to western Ethiopia and sees starving Dinka refugees--tall and reedlike--there's not much to say except that life is cruel. They were driven from their home in Sudan by drought and war, and these are ancient, traditional plagues, not modern inventions. It is in Bangkok, strangely enough, that the message of Hertsgaard's journeying begins to strike home. This sprawling river city is like most others--mad about cars, paralyzed by car traffic, its air made unbreathable by cars and its municipal life dying of cars. If this were all, the moral would be simple...
...grew up in a drought-stricken town in Iowa in the 1930s listening to "Dutch" Reagan the sportscaster on radio station WHO, Des Moines. More than 50 years later, I watched President Reagan with his newfound friend Mikhail Gorbachev, stroll through Red Square talking and laughing with the Moscow citizens lining up to see the embalmed body of Lenin, the communist godfather. It was mind boggling...