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...Crimson then left the game in the capable hands of junior goaltender Jen Bowdoin. Dartmouth continually kept pressure on Bowdoin, controlling the puck in Harvard's zone and peppering her with shots from all angles. Harvard eventually ended the game outshot 47 to 33, with Bowdoin making 45 saves...
...work with the Swiss on a new survey of exactly how many Jewish accounts had existed and how the money left could be returned to rightful owners. Finally the two sides agreed to set up an audit, then discuss a final resolution. In the meantime, the process would be kept quiet...
Among the Irish, a bardic genius for remembering, the grievances singing in the genes, has kept the kettle of sectarian vengeance boiling since the Battle of the Boyne in 1690. Israel became a state in 1948, and for 49 years Palestinian children have gone to sleep to stories of the nakba, the disaster, that destroyed the village, the fig, the olive, the Palestinian Eden from which nakba meant exile. Tribal memory is the plutonium of revenge. The mother shows her son the martyr-father's bloody shirt and sings the song of blood feud: Make them...
...case of the Swiss and the Holocaust plays interesting variations on the theme of remembering and forgetting. The Swiss for decades have nestled complacently in the myth of their wartime virtue. They were neutral in their fastness. Their mountains and their citizen army kept the Germans off and preserved their tidy civilization...
...athletes. At last week's Westminster Kennel Club show, however, he found himself covering some pampered athletes of another species. As Wulf watched a Gordon setter and a Brittany spaniel finish one-two among sporting dogs, he found himself reliving childhood memories of Troy, New York, where his family kept two dogs--a Gordon setter named Beau and a Brittany named Brill. "They were like George and Lennie from Of Mice and Men," remembers Wulf. "Brill was a small but brilliant hunting dog. Beau was big and not very bright; he always seemed to be asking Brill to tell...