Word: flukes
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...this team,” Tobe said. “And if I am, I should stop those.” PELLE’S BELLS Jon Pelle, the Bright’s goalposts missed you. Now a sophomore, Pelle announced that his rookie season numbers were no fluke with his performance against McGill, potting two goals from his favorite spot: the backdoor. The first was, of course, a tap-in on the power play, a welcome sign for a unit that lost two of its early-season mainstays—Noah Welch and Andrew Lederman—to graduation...
...stick skills of Princeton. While the postseason may be unlikely for the Crimson, it still hopes to garner a win tomorrow, both for revenge and pride. Regardless of the teams’ records, tomorrow promises an intense shootout. Harvard hopes to prove that the recent struggles are merely a fluke and that it remains one of the top teams in the league—and after all, the pressure is entirely on the Tigers. The Crimson has nothing to lose. “We’re not intimidated by Princeton,” McDavitt said. We?...
Turns out that 10-catch, 253-yard performance a season ago was no fluke...
...happened. Its hero is Christopher Paolini, a real-life home-schooled kid who lives with his family in a remote valley in the Absaroka Mountains of Montana. When he was 15, Paolini wrote a fantasy novel called Eragon, which has sold 2.5 million copies. And it wasn't a fluke: Paolini, who is now a ripe old 21, has written a sequel to Eragon called Eldest (Knopf; 681 pages), due out this week. The adventure continues...
...wind shear--a violent shift in air currents--in the case of the downed Delta craft. Such differences have led some experts to call the mishaps a statistical aberration. Concludes John Enders, president of the Flight Safety Foundation, a Virginia research and consulting group: "It's a kind of fluke, a confluence of a lot of things. There isn't any single thing one can point to and say, 'Ah yes, here's a new trend...