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Santos recalls poking up his head. "No one was standing or shouting," he says. So Santos stood up, grabbed his girlfriend, and stood against the wall. The couple, both rail-thin, moved in the roughly 10-inch gap between the wall and row of seats. Some students tried dialing their cell phones, with no luck; cell phone service in the lecture hall was usually spotty, anyways. Blood was everywhere...
...assist on the play, which was also the 34th goal scored by the country’s second-best power play unit. “We got great looks at the net, great opportunities,” Stone said. “They made us work for every inch. Fortunately, we were able to get a few more inches than them.”Harvard came out strong to start the first period, opening the scoring just 3:24 into the game. Sophomore Anna McDonald, playing behind the net, passed the puck to freshman Liza Ryabkina, who slipped it past...
...That’s the secret, really. Don’t write out “TIME!!!” in inch-high scrawl—it only brings out the sadist in us. Don’t (Cliffies) write offers to come over and read aloud to us your illegible remarks—we can (officially) read anything, and we may be married. Write on both sides of the page—single bluebook finals look like less work to grade, and win points. This chic, shaded calligraphic script so many are affecting lately is handsome, and is probably...
...Year's Day, two days before the Iowa caucuses, Mitt Romney crisscrossed eastern Iowa in his red, white and blue Mittmobile, trying to inch past the insurgent Mike Huckabee in the final moments before the first presidential nominating contest in the nation. He touched down at seven different house parties, or, as the day's inescapable football metaphor would have it, "House Party Huddles." Of course, they were less huddles than tailgate parties with large-screen TVs instead of stadiums and living rooms instead of parking lots. And Romney was less a featured attraction than halftime entertainment. In Clive, Iowa...
...weeks back, how much of it is a result of not having the backroom staff that some of the other campaigns have? A lot of it is the result of us campaigning 20 hours a day. I mean, you know, we had to just scratch and scrape for every inch of the territory that we got. So much of it was that we literally were having to just do as many events as possible. Now we are able to be a little more disciplined and focused on the events that...