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Taylor was one of the lone bright spots in yesterday’s loss to Merrimack, frequently showing an aggressive instinct that his entire team could never consistently produce. He assisted the last goal of the game, scored by Andrew Lederman with 11.4 seconds left...
Freshman Dave Watters' power-play goal—the first of his collegiate career and Harvard's lone conversion in four man-advantage opportunities—at 6:02 kept the Crimson's hopes alive, if only for a few moments. Springing from the penalty box as his minor expired, Schmidt received a long outlet pass behind the Harvard defense and raced in on Tobe all alone, roofing his effort to reestablish the Warriors' three-goal edge...
...Internet game JFK Reloaded [Dec. 6]. It is absolutely despicable that people would make a computer game about a real-life tragedy like the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. The creators of the game seem to accept the Warren Commission's finding that Lee Harvey Oswald was the lone gunman involved, even though many documentaries question that conclusion. JFK Reloaded makes killing seem like a game, and is very insensitive to the surviving Kennedys and all who admired Kennedy's presidency...
...police in Adhamiya, the sheer number of attackers revealed a change in the insurgents' tactics. In the past, rebel operations in Baghdad generally consisted of two or three attackers firing mortars from pickup trucks. The more deadly operations tended to involve explosives set off by remote control or by lone suicide bombers. The latest assault was different. "This was not a hit-and-run operation," says Abed. "These men came to fight face to face and to take over the station." It was also more sophisticated than earlier attacks, as evidenced by the ambush laid against U.S. troops racing...
...numbers go up, the images tend to get more complex (16 catfish whiskers, 18 diamond markings on a rattlesnake), but even the simpler ones are ingenious, as in a chameleon's three colors blending into a tricolor scene. After 20, the book takes us back to 1 with a lone humpback whale--an invitation to start over, which little arithmeticians will want to do again and again...