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Miguel has an 80.6 percent success rate with the quad. One night out of five the grip with brother Juan is not sure, fingers do not clutch wrists, and for one sickening instant Miguel drops toward the ground. The knot in your stomach rips apart, and you think that is has finally happened...
Loyola senior Tara Kramer scored one of her four goals with 12:01 remaining to knot the game at eight, but Harvard senior Buffy Hansen broke the tie with a goal at 5:56 left to put the Crimson ahead again...
Junior forward Matt Mallgrave fed junior forward Steve Flomenhoft behind the right post. Flomenhoft, battling with a Cornell defenseman, kicked the puck into the crease where Burke tipped it home to knot the game...
...recognizes, it seems, that the real cold war has always been internal and that inside the heart the walls have not come down, and one side is still fighting the other. The opponents the athletes will face are the same as ever: the climate, the crowd, the knot in the stomach. Even the rule makers: one of the most eagerly awaited contests this year will pit France's ice-dancing Duchesnays -- hometown favorites -- against the limiting regulations of their sport. But that, in a sense, is what the Olympics have always been about: not rules, really, but exceptions...
Seldom has such a complicated knot of racial politics and hagiographic pride been expressed with such economy. Director Spike Lee's baseball hat emblazoned with a silver X -- created to promote his forthcoming film on Malcolm X -- is grass-roots iconography of a high order. Two years ago, the ubiquitous- superhero-logo-of-choice was that of a white playboy-vigilante who dresses like a bat; now it is a real-life black pimp turned philosopher...