Word: ilan
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...said Broadbent. “The success of this team this year will depend on how the freshmen—Verdi DiSesa and Niko Hrdy—perform ...[and] the freshmen are stepping up.” And recently, they’ve had to step up, since junior Ilan Oren, who usually plays in the third position, is now resting with an injured ankle. As a result, all players below the third position have had to move up one position. The Big Green, which has a very young team coming into this season, did not look ready to face...
...number of players had to move up spots to fill in for juniors Sidd Suchde and Ilan Oren, but the Crimson still cruised in its first match since last year’s national championship loss to Trinity...
...lift-off. No one cared, except the insurance companies that covered the payload, because there was no crew aboard. NASA's insistence on sending a crew on every shuttle flight means risking precious human life for mindless tasks that automated devices can easily carry out. Did Israeli astronaut Ilan Ramon really have to be there to push a couple of buttons on the Mediterranean Israeli Dust Experiment, the payload package he died to accompany to space...
Shuttle missions are always a mix of symbol and substance; the Challenger had the schoolteacher Christa McAuliffe; Columbia had Ilan Ramon, the first Israeli astronaut and a decorated F16 pilot, whose mother and grandmother were Auschwitz survivors. He hoped that his adventure would be a happy respite from a hard winter for his embattled country: Israel could travel with him, to feel safe in a borderless universe. Even a Palestinian Authority spokesman had wished for his safe return. "We flew over Jerusalem," he said in an interview from space. "Israel looked so small and beautiful." He had asked Prime Minister...
...space shuttle Columbia ever heard was Scotland the Brave by the 51st Highland Brigade. That was the wake-up song beamed up by NASA on the morning the ship was supposed to return to earth. The day before it had been Shalom Lach Eretz Nehederet, for Israeli astronaut Ilan Ramon. Thursday morning it had been John Lennon's Imagine. Scotland the Brave was for mission specialist Laurel Clark, Scottish by extraction...