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Released from the penalty box with 8:59 left in the period, junior center Jennifer Raimondi dove into the 4-on-4 fray, freeing up the puck for a shot by senior tri-captain Nicole Corriero. The shot was stopped by Colgate goalie Brooke Wheeler, but freshman sensation Sarah Vaillancourt was on the spot to put home the rebound...

Author: By Jonathan Lehman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: W. Hockey Takes Two on Regular Season’s Opening Weekend | 11/8/2004 | See Source »

...echoing vocals, building up a Sunday morning haze that envelops the damp percussion—is it a drum machine or just some dude beatboxing? Lyrically he more recites blurry jingles and scraps of melody than pronounces anything particularly relevant, using his voice as just another instrument in the fray. In tone he alternates here between a fairly lucid baritone and a whining falsetto, a trend that holds up throughout the disc. This tendency toward wild fluctuations gives an effect of purposely pathetic overextension (see the absurd choir-boy-to-demon shift in “Among Dreams?...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Music | 11/5/2004 | See Source »

...serving five consecutive life sentences in an Israeli prison for his role in the current intifada. But if no Palestinian leader will ever recapture the national mystique and symbolic power of Arafat, the next best campaign biography may be to pass the treacherous post-Arafat years outside the fray in an Israeli prison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Next After Arafat? | 11/4/2004 | See Source »

Roupas said yesterday afternoon that he was prepared for further weeks of campaign work in case the election results were disputed. An RNC-issued BlackBerry handheld was attached to his belt, ready to call him back into the political fray...

Author: By Michael M. Grynbaum, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Bush Campaign Celebrates Results | 11/3/2004 | See Source »

British medical journal the Lancet made a dramatic late entry into the U.S. election fray, fast-tracking publication on its website of a study saying that about 100,000 "excess" Iraqi deaths have occurred since the war began in March 2003. In the first scientific study of the human cost of the war and occupation, the deaths were attributed to "invasion violence," mostly U.S.-coalition air strikes. Although the figure is well above previously published estimates (which have ranged up to 30,000) the researchers, led by Les Roberts of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Many Have Died? | 10/31/2004 | See Source »

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