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...years old, and when I was a child, men worked, women kept house and we children were left to our own devices. We built kites from sticks, newspapers and string; scooters from a piece of 2-by-4 and old roller-skate wheels; stilts from leftover lumber. We played hide-and-seek, Come My Good Sheep, Red Rover, marbles and jacks. We played football and baseball with our own rules and changed them if we wanted to. And what happened to us? We grew up to be the Greatest Generation...
Although Brown didn’t convert on the penalty, the Crimson was forced to play more defensively and could not score in that time. In the third period, Harvard kept the pressure on and had a chance to earn the game-tying goal with one minute left when Brown defender Sean McMonagle was called for interference...
...into the match with just one win in 12 games combined in-league—the Bears escaped once again last night, winning 4-1 after netting two empty net goals in the last 45 seconds of the game. Though Harvard outshot Brown 43-33, Bears goalie Michael Clemente kept the visitors in the game, denying the Crimson on several threatening shot attempts and extending the home team’s winless streak to nine games...
After spending the whole summer in Cambridge working out and preparing for the season, Ryabkina suffered an awkward fall while taking some shots during an unofficial captain’s practice. That fall, which her coach Katey Stone described as a “freak accident,” kept Ryabkina out of action for eight weeks and rehabilitating her knee while teammates were practicing maneuvers...
While the Anglophile sheik kept a stiff upper lip, Dubai's inability to pay its debts is a heavy blow to an ego that easily dwarfs Dubai's gleaming new 160-story skyscraper. In the wake of the 2008 global financial meltdown, Sheik Mohammed repeatedly waved off predictions of Dubai's demise, staunchly defended his economic development model and dismissed Western media criticism as a bigoted slur on an Arab success story. "I can safely say that we have succeeded in containing the risks of the global financial crisis in record time," he said last April. Indeed, even...