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...still adjusting to the collegiate game after playing with boys’ teams for most of her life in her native country.“I played a totally different style of play,” Ryabkina said. “It was all individual. It was just, grab the puck and go beat everybody, never like, try to pass it and create the play.”CROWD CONTROLAfter easily finishing on top of the ECAC standings in the regular season with a perfect 22-0-0 league record, Harvard came into the conference playoffs with the advantage...
...periods of solid play,” Lin said. “Defense has pretty much been our weakness all year.”While the Crimson was clearly over-matched in perimeter play by the hot-shooting Bears, Harvard was able to outscore Brown in the paint and grab five more rebounds as a team. Harris was a huge factor down low, leading the Crimson with 16 points and seven rebounds—but perhaps even more impressive were his three dominant blocks.Lin had an all-around solid game with nine points, seven rebounds, and seven assists. Pusar chipped...
...kingpin. The movie plays the robbery as a kind of sting, arranged by MI 5, a branch of the British secret service. Their idea was to make the crime look like a standard heist, allow the robbers to keep the loot if they could escape the investigating cops, but grab the embarrassing evidence of royal playfulness. To this end, they engage the astonishingly beautiful Martine (Saffron Burrows) to recruit the crime team - a bunch of small time crooks (led by the excellent Jason Statham, who is on his way to broody stardom) from her old lower class neighborhood. This...
...Boston. It is for this reason that our great city brims with glee every March 17, with merriments often carrying on into the wee hours of the night. I’m still not sure why these celebrations are centered around Irish pubs and green beer, but whatever. Grab a shot glass and celebrate Washington’s victory with Martin Scorsese’s love letter to Boston, “The Departed.” TAKE A SHOT… 1. Whenever Jack Nicholson scares the shit out of you. 2. Whenever Leonardo DiCaprio cries like a girl...
...obvious reasons is covered by the press, is where a lot of it is laid out. But that is not what gets me up in the morning. It is the important intimate encounters with people who thank me for helping their children get health care or people who grab my hand and say, "Please bring my son home from Iraq" or ask me to help with a problem they have. That is what I feel is real and is part of what I love about public service - are people better off when I stopped than when I started...