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...Martin, didn't realize was that the blaze he and his wife Mary decided to battle was like nothing seen in in the area in living memory. "It was like a massive fireball," says Robbins, who was at her home in Melbourne during the fire. "People have explained it leapt across in giant bounds like huge balls of fires, and all the sprinklers in the world would not have been enough to stop it." Martin and his wife died. "The CFA (Country Fire Authority) should have told them this fireball was coming and to get out," Robbins says...
...realizing I had integrated a discussion of cupcakes into otherwise unrelated conversations. Witnessing withdrawal symptoms when forced to replace cupcakes with French pastries during my junior fall abroad in France.And then, I embraced the obsession.As one of the countless Harvard undergraduates living in New York last summer, I leapt at the chance to leave my Midwestern roots and live in the country’s most populous city. But beyond the world-famous museums, endless crowds, and innumerable clubs, Manhattan became my cupcake haven. When friends came to visit, I unknowingly turned our tour of the city into a cupcake...
...Crimson’s power play conversion percentage has been greater than or equal to that of its opponents. PENALTY KILLThe Big Red outshot the Crimson 44-24 on the night. The shot differential transpired entirely in the second and third periods, ironically the same time as when Harvard leapt ahead on the scoreboard. The somewhat oppositional statistics may be justified by the Crimson’s superb defense, which killed all seven of Cornell’s power play opportunities of the game. Anchoring Harvard’s defensive efforts was sophomore goaltender Ryan Carroll, who stopped 42 shots...
...team’s leading scorer, only to find him swarmed by two Lion defenders with time ticking down. Abandoning the original plan, Pusar took a few hurried steps up to half court where he launched the ball at the rim. Seeing the shot fall short, the Columbia bench leapt to its feet in a victorious fervor.Throughout the first 10 minutes of the second, Harvard had looked primed for victory. The Crimson chugged along, leading by as much as 10 over an underperforming Lions team. Harvard forced fouls left and right and utilized a number of free throws to drive...
...game, but the ensuing 19-1 Big Red run put the home team ahead for good.A strong contender for the play of the game came halfway through the first half, when Foote flipped up a short jumper from the right block. Overcoming a height differential of eight inches, Kenyi leapt up and denied the Cornell big man, swatting his attempt into the hardwood.—Staff writer Dennis J. Zheng can be reached at dzheng12@college.harvard.edu...