Word: knocks
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...poisoned the atmosphere in the locker room while attempting to renegotiate their contracts. They had—or at least Schober had—been caught breaking a law that most college students have, at one point or another, probably broken themselves, just without being busted.Was Johnson going to knock on Murphy’s door, step into his office and say: “You know, coach, I’ve been thinking about Russ and Dez. Me and some of the guys think what they did was really bad—really bad—and you should...
...Europeans and Japanese are still miles ahead of Detroit in technology, aesthetics and ergonomics. Most of the cars coming out of Detroit look like cheap knock-offs of better-made foreign models. The bottom line is that the Big Three still can't build good cars. They don't have to; they'll always have the customer with the buy-American mentality to fall back...
...State in the final. The team of Chu and freshman Catriona Stewart was the Crimson’s only entrant in the doubles draw. The pair, seeded no. 2, advanced to the semifinals before again running into Ohio State. DiPastina and Sonia Ruzimovsky, the 3 seed, were able to knock off Chu and Stewart 8-3 and prevent the Crimson from sweeping both singles and doubles. —Staff writer Caleb W. Peiffer can be reached at cpeiffer@fas.harvard.edu...
...championship heading into the final two weeks—will be next week’s Yale-Brown matchup. As difficult as it may be, Harvard fans are going to have to swallow their pride, put on anything blue they own, and root for the Bulldogs to knock off the Bears. If Brown gets by Yale unscathed, the race is pretty much done. The Bears finish up against Dartmouth and Columbia and with the Ivy title on the line, they won’t drop one of those games. But if the Bulldogs come through with a win, things could...
...minutes before the initial blast?said the first bomb was driven by scooter or rickshaw into Paharganj, a run-down food-and-clothes bazaar containing a handful of backpacker hostels. The second was planted in the Sarojini Nagar market, a ramshackle collection of open-air stalls crammed with knock-off designer wear and cheap plastic knick-knacks. Both areas were favorites of lower-middle-class Indians. And when the devices were detonated, between 5:30 and 6:00 p.m., both places were packed with families of all faiths buying gifts, fireworks and fairy lights on the last shopping day before...