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After senior quarterback Neil Rose tied the game at 14 on a 20-yard slant to Morris with 11:23 left in the third quarter, the Penn offense drove into Harvard territory on the ensuing possession. From the 49, Quaker quarterback Gavin Hoffman fired a pass over the middle of the field that was initially caught by senior wideout Rob Milanese at the Crimson 15. Sophomore cornerback Benny Butler, who was playing tight coverage, hit Milanese and dislodged the ball, and Alford made an acrobatic play to snag the ball in mid-air for his third interception of the season...
...Shadowy figures waited for us at regular intervals along the track leading up to the village - he had radioed ahead to make sure that we didn't fall victim to friendly fire. He was very cautious as we drove along the track. We drove without headlights - by far the most dangerous part of the operation, and Khademudin even covered the luminous clock with his scarf. Then a moonlit walk through the village along a narrow Tuscan hill-town lane, (many of the mud houses are three story) to a house with the best views. We clambered up the mud stairs...
...Sometimes, the plan seems unfathomable. A 60-year-old woman from Zhengzhou says Lightning devotees invited her to teach the Bible in their homes last year. They drove her to an unfamiliar village and presented her with a screaming and trembling man. They instructed her to cast out his devil. She couldn't. Then a Lightning follower prayed and sure enough the devil vanished, proving the woman's God was false, they said. Frightened, she acknowledged that her God seemed less powerful. Still, they held her nine more days, until her minister tracked her down and sought the police...
...grew up a block from a major university, constantly hearing my father badmouth the students who surrounded us. They hosted loud parties that lasted till the wee hours, crammed the streets with too many cars, drove the rents up by packing into small apartments and just generally didn’t care about our community. As students moved in, families moved out, and the neighborhood took on a transient character. “Student” sounds like an insult in my father’s mouth; he spits it out as though no further explanation were needed...
Junior forward Beth Totman dribbled past defenders to the top of the box and then passed off to Yenne, who ran through on a diagonal. Yenne took the ball down the sideline and then crossed to Westfall in the center, who drove home the game-winner...