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...games, we were neck-and-neck, maybe one or two points behind, and then the Springfield players would start ripping jumpers,” Fitz said. “We would let them spring off six or seven points in a row and dug ourselves into a hole that we couldn’t get out of.” In the opening frame, Harvard evened the score at 3 on a kill by Weissbourd. The Crimson then kept within a few points for a string of plays but, at 15-12, the Pride put together six consecutive points...
...Molly and then Texas Comptroller Bob Bullock (as canny a politician as ever lived), his personnel director Charles Miles and Ann Richards were leaning on the back wall of a popular watering hole during a typical Austin political shindig. A local county official from east Texas, "some old racist judge," as Molly called him, approached. Bullock, who had yet to swear off drinking, introduced the official "to my good friend Molly Ivins." The man was aghast, but he was taken aback further when Bullock introduced him next to his personnel director, Miles, an African American. Then Richards leaned forward, proffered...
...HARVARD 4, CLARKSON 3It was a good thing for Harvard on Saturday that a game lasts three periods.After the opening 20 minutes of hockey at Bright Hockey Center, the Crimson had only managed two shots on the Clarkson net. After 40 minutes, Harvard found itself in a 2-1 hole and on the verge of dropping into fourth place in the ECAC standings.“Clearly, in a situation like that, you see what the character of your team is,” Stone said.With a surge in the final period, and a lot of offense from...
...answer came seconds later. A huge explosion blew a hole in a bakery, sending body parts and bread showering onto the pavement outside. Three Israelis were killed and two others wounded by the blast. Responsibility for the terror attack was immediately claimed by three different Palestinian militant groups, one of them - Islamic Jihad - identifying the bomber as Mohammed Siksik, 21, from Gaza...
...placating noises (there are already 200 outlets in China and the company aims to make the country its biggest market after the U.S., so they were ripe for the plucking); and various wangchong - networms, as they are known - made knee-jerk nationalist comments. In fact, the outlet, a tiny, hole-in-the-wall store with no sign outside, has been serving its signature overpriced, coffee-flavored milk to tourists for no less than six years. So why the sudden interest in the issue? Trotting out this lame duck (can ducks trot?) has certainly sparked a rush of internet traffic...