Word: duel
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...game was a duel in the tradition of Harvard-Dartmouth basketball. In the last seven years, the Crimson holds a slight edge with an 8-6 advantage over the Big Green...
...times in a row will you have to insert a slice, only to see it instantly pop back up again? Set the dial to WELL DONE, and the "toast" that emerges five long minutes later is pale yellow. Exactly! The recalcitrant toaster must not die. It's this very duel of wits between man and machine, the struggle to outguess the little bastard's endless treacheries, that snaps the dozing mind awake every morning, sharpening it for the challenges of the day ahead...
Harvard will continue to rotate junior Allison Kuusisto and freshman Jessica Ruddock in net throughout the weekend. If Ruddock and Barrie get the starts on Sunday, Harvard would be involved in a duel of freshman goaltenders for the second weekend...
Saturday afternoon's meeting between Harvard and Princeton started like the typical Botterill-Shewchuk highlight reel before transforming into a save-by-save duel between the teams' two freshman goaltenders...
...will miss the man himself. Frankly, I think everyone will, even the conspiracy theorists, the impeachment managers and the betrayed leftists who rallied around Ralph Nader's granola-munching march to irrelevance. We will miss him because in an age of small men, when lackluster eldest sons duel for the presidency and petty time-servers scrabble for scraps in Congress, Bill Clinton was huge, a towering figure across our political landscape. Like Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, he "doth bestride the narrow world like a Colossus," and his defeated enemies could only join voice with Cassius in saying that "the fault...