Word: kneeing
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...clubbing of Nancy Kerrigan's knee by a compatriot of rival figure skater Tonya Harding was one of the weirdest and ugliest moments in sports history. The man who hatched the plan with Harding's ex-husband Jeff Stone: her beefy bodyguard, Brian Sean Griffith. Griffith confessed days after the attack, helping to nab the hired assailant, and spent more than a year in prison. He later changed his name (from Shawn Eckhardt) in an attempt to put the events behind him. He was 40 and died of apparently natural causes...
...anyone who has spent any considerable amount of time on this campus, Harvard students’ knee-jerk liberalism and militant atheism, or, at least, militant hostility to religion, is more than apparent. An integral part of any misguided teenage rebellion includes perfunctorily discarding the formalities and traditions long observed in one’s family: Sunday mornings spent in church, obligatory dietary restrictions, and even a baseline belief in God. Thanks to cartoonish caricatures of Evangelicals in the media, religion immediately connotes images, in the minds of the self-styled intellectuals at Harvard, of provincialism, stupidity, and Republican Party...
...really happy with the swim because I had knee surgery in August,” she said of the surprising result...
Balanchine described the narrative of his ballet “Apollo” as “a wild, untamed youth who gains nobility through art.” Though it has been 50 years and two knee replacements since Jacques d’Amboise played the title role for the New York City Ballet, he pantomimed god’s birth and education by the muses with exuberance and grace for a Harvard audience last week. The subject of art as a mirror on the world and the transformative power of dance became the focal point...
...point showing against the Mountain Hawks made everyone think that the offense was weaker than expected. Enter senior Chris Pizzotti, a quarterback every Harvard fan already knew well. The year before, he started five games, including a gutsy comeback win at Lehigh while fighting through a knee injury, only to lose his job when O’Hagan returned from a suspension. This preseason, he lost the quarterback battle again, then lost a fumble that was returned for a touchdown against Lehigh, sealing the 20-13 loss. Maybe his arm was moving forward, or maybe it wasn?...