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...second half, however, came a disgruntled Wildcat team that clawed its way through the Crimson defenders. Knoche denied three New Hampshire shots on goal before one slipped through at 57:10. Though Harvard did manage to edge the Wildcats in penalty corners, New Hampshire made the most of its lone opportunity, hooking a drive into the left side of the net. The Wildcats were then able to ride a wave of momentum that Harvard had been grasping for. New Hampshire outshot the Crimson 9-2 in the second half and 4-1 in overtime.Both teams held on for the remainder...
...Wisconsin accounted for nearly a third of the 102 reported illnesses, including the lone death, a 77-year-old woman who died of kidney failure...
...June 19, 1989 One man against an army. The power of the people versus the power of the gun. There he stood, implausibly resolute in his thin white shirt, an unknown Chinese man facing down a lumbering column of tanks. For a moment that will be long remembered, the lone man defined the struggle of China's citizens. "Why are you here?" he shouted at the silent steel hulk. "You have done nothing but create misery. My city is in chaos because of you." The brief encounter between the man and the tank captured an epochal event in the lives...
...night - until 1980 when Richards's family confronted her with her alcoholism and she went into rehab. One year later, Bullock went off, as he put it, to "drunk school" at the Betty Ford clinic in California and when he returned by private plane a few weeks later, the lone person to meet him was Ann Richards...
...suspect. He is superficially plausible both because of the plague of Islamic jihadism and because of our memory of Sirhan Sirhan, the Palestinian who in 1968 shot Robert F. Kennedy because, he said, of Bobby's support for Israel in the Six-Day War. If Sirhan was indeed the lone gunman, then the assassination (which is dramatized in the Emilio Estevez movie Bobby, also playing in Toronto) could be said to mark the birth of Arab terrorism on U.S. soil...