Word: logjams
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...Crimson made a concerted effort as shots were released to dominate positions that provided unfettered access to Howard, ensuring there would be a logjam in front at every opportunity. Relatively small compared to Harvard, Maine could do little to help its goaltender once a skater was placed in the box, so the Black Bears made the one adjustment they could: They stopped committing penalties...
Walsh remembers Berkman as “a first base/DH type”—a typecast usually reserved for slow, big men who logjam the minor leagues—when he coached him that summer. In 2002, his second year as a full-time player, Berkman was starting in centerfield at Houston’s Minute Maid Park...
...question is where we find the equilibrium between them." That doesn't sound like a shared vision for leading the E.U. toward the sunlit uplands. Still, it's a start. Certainly the Berlin meeting will be a cheery photo op. The Big Three could also try to break the logjam on voting weights that scuppered the constitutional talks in December, and they will likely produce small practical measures like liberalizing Europe's energy market and advancing a European patent board. Those are tiny steps for sure, but far better than marching backward - or beating each other bloody...
...Israelis? part, the renewed moves against Arafat express the frustration at their inability to break out of a strategic logjam that has made commonplace the spectacle of broken, bloodied bodies on the streets of Israel?s cities despite the best efforts of its military to kill the commanders and operatives of Hamas, Islamic Jihad and the al-Aqsa Martyr?s Brigade. Some argue that Arafat is the terror kingpin, that the whole Oslo enterprise was a tragic mistake that Israel now has an opportunity to rectify by turning back the clock 12 years. Others see him a cynical power broker...
...that Presbyterians, United Methodists and Evangelical Lutherans all have "substantial, active, gay faithful caucuses" that now will push to re-examine the question of gay clergy. In fact, Reverend Wright, who escorted "ecumenical observers" from other churches at last week's conference, said the prevailing view was that "a logjam had been broken...