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Harvard came as close to winning as possible last night, only to falter in the end. The iceman took a one-goal lead into the final four minutes of regulation before surrendering a power-play goal to Eagle Captain Lee Blossom...
...women's volleyball to answer Do they want to win? Yesterday against the Huskies of UConn the spikers temporarily responded yes with a 3-2 win. But throughout the five-set contest, the Crimson seemed reluctant to give a decisive answer At several crucial points, the spiker seemed to falter and lose momentum, letting UConn regain the advantage Consequently, a match that the Crimson looked strong enough to win in four sets dragged out to five...
...Multiflex continued to falter after Potter's first miscue and following Villanueva's punt on fourth and 10, Brown took over...
...this would catapult him out of office," says a fellow Christian Democrat. "But he is going to make as much trouble as possible in order to undermine the Free Democrats as a long-term political partner." For this reason, nothing would please Strauss more than to see the F.D.P. falter in the Hesse elections...
...Soviet military practice. Their pilots and naval captains are taught to fight strictly by the book and risk being shot by security police if they deviate into independent maneuvers. Half-trained Asian infantrymen, most of whom cannot understand their Russian-speaking officers, march stolidly forward, knowing that if they falter they will be machine-gunned by the KGB. So blindly is the stricture against retreat enforced that even a temporary strategic withdrawal is forbidden, and the Soviet officer who recommends it is dragged out and shot...