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...Black Bears scored four unanswered goals to win. Harvard fans lurched forward with each goal, mouths agape, as if they’d all been socked in the gut. By the middle of the third period, it was clear Maine wouldn’t be stopped. The only question was whether the Black Bears would win, or simply run out of time...
...talk about process, Kerry in his own way is doing the same thing; at some level this choice may come down to a gut check. It was political palm reader Bill Clinton who warned his fellow Democrats that in dangerous times, people may prefer a leader who is strong and wrong to one who is weak and right. That may be one reason that, even this early on, we have heard about Kerry's personal heroism in Vietnam; we may not know where the snipers are today, but we know he had the guts to run toward one 35 years...
...President Bush promised he wouldn’t use 9/11 for political gain. Now that his first campaign ads—filled with gut-wrenching images from the Sept. 2001 terrorist attacks—have hit the airwaves, Americans can see how good Bush’s word really...
...gut check for both Cahill and Kerry came in early December, when she made a quiet Sunday-afternoon visit to the Senator and his wife at their Louisburg Square town house in Boston and laid out the grim financial reality of their situation. "It was very clinical," she recalls. "Here are the facts. Here's what we need." What they needed was a lot more money, and they weren't going to get it unless Kerry took out a mortgage on the very house in which they were meeting. The problem wasn't that he couldn't swing...
...coming to Harvard, is currently the only certified research chef employed by an American university. A veteran of classes on the science of food preparation, Allen shows that he took good notes with CSG’s commitment to “blast chilling.” Contrary to gut reaction, “blast chilling” does not involve dynamite or liquid nitrogen—the process entails quickly freezing a prepared dish in cold-water tanks to ensure freshness and inhibit bacteria growth...