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...chastises the President's simplemindedness in foreign affairs the metaphor probably reflects a shared and abiding American faith in a world we can solve. That geometric precision may not be attuned to modern life. The cube cliche recalls the Gordian Knot, that ancient interlocking challenge whose solution held the secrets of Asian conquest. Like Alexander bringing Hellenism to the heathen, Americans want to bear democracy and Western hopes and dreams to an undemocratic non-Western world...
...exception in a city that has become famous for its violent children. In fact, the reverse is true. There are plenty of violent children in Belfast, to be sure: kids who kill time stealing cars for joyrides or lobbing petrol bombs at the army. But they are a small knot of a minority. Most Belfast children are like Paul. They have not all suffered so directly from the Troubles, but their response to the Troubles is similar. They carry no hatred in their hearts, they show a will to survive, and they are exceptionally gentle with grownups and with...
...when Jeff Cowles tipped in a rebound to knot the game at two and Billy O'Dwyer put the Eagles up 3-2 minutes later, it becaem obvious that call had been the turning point of the game...
...with Shayne Kukulowicz in the penalty box for tripping early in the third period. Greg Olson tied the contest on a breakaway, flipping the shorthanded goal home at 3:08. The Friars tallied twice more in the period, but each time Visone retaliated to re-knot the seore, sliding a rebound in the net at 9:54 and connecting with Britz for the hat trick...
...Harvard bounced right back at 7:05, when Scott Fusco took a centering pass from winger Greg Chalmers and flipped it past UNH netminder Todd Pearson to knot the score...