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...goals and an assist in last weekend’s series against Princeton—found herself with the puck right in front of sophomore goaltender Ali Boe. Before Link could lift the puck over the right leg of the sprawled out goalie, Boe pounced on it with her glove and stuffed Brown’s opportunity...

Author: By Gabriel M. Velez, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Johnston Lifts W. Hockey Over Brown in ECAC Semifinals | 3/22/2004 | See Source »

Less than five minutes later, David McCulloch blocked a shot in the Harvard zone, freeing Cavanagh and Charlie Johnson on a 2-on-1. Cavanagh held it until he reached the circles, then ripped his team-leading 16th goal past Dustin Traylen’s glove hand...

Author: By Jon PAUL Morosi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Men's Hockey Wins ECAC Championship | 3/19/2004 | See Source »

Well, no. The two most important people in the building when it comes to such matters—the goal judge and referee Scott Hansen—didn’t see Pettit’s laser sail over Danis’s glove and pop out, quicker than you could say, “Albany.” Serves Pettit right, you might say, for possessing a vicious slapshot that can be unseeable, unstoppable or both...

Author: By Jon PAUL Morosi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Most Agree, Pettit's Goal Was In | 3/15/2004 | See Source »

...been studying how the Los Angeles police department patrols gangland neighborhoods. They plan to be less intrusive, eschewing tank raids in favor of foot patrols, cultivating goodwill rather than taking the fight to the enemy. "There is a time for the iron fist and a time for the velvet glove," says Brigadier General Mark Kimmitt, deputy director of U.S. military operations in Iraq. Retired General Anthony Zinni, who headed the U.S. Central Command from 1997 to 2000, says the garrison strategy is "good because it drives down U.S. casualties, but it's bad because it means you're throwing everything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iraq: One Year Later: Which Way Is The Exit? | 3/15/2004 | See Source »

...some officers privately call these velvet-glove aspirations naive. When U.S. troops are holed up in garrisons on the outskirts of cities and towns, says New York University law professor Noah Feldman, who has advised the Administration on Iraq, "they have a tendency to look like wimps." That's a perception the insurgents are certain to put to the test. Lieut. Colonel Russell says "these people respect strength." His unit employed some of the most controversial tactics the occupation has seen: mass detentions, firing on suspected guerrilla positions amid civilians, demolishing houses, even ringing a troublesome village with barbed wire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iraq: One Year Later: Which Way Is The Exit? | 3/15/2004 | See Source »

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