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...goalkeeper Suzanne Maman did all she could to turn away the Harvard attack. In the first stanza alone, Maman faced 23 shots, coming up with 16 saves. Crimson netminder Sarah Leary, on the other hand, barely had to break a sweat. The sophomore netminder had three saves as the Cornell attack could only manage six shots against a very unyielding Harvard defense...
...second half, the Harvard attack played a much more controlled, error-free game, resulting in the departure of the beleagured Maman...
Senior midfielder Char Joslin opened the scoring on a pretty, backhand shovel shot after receiving a pass from Clifford, who was camped behind the Cornell cage. Joslin then put a high shot by Maman before Berkery flipped a pass to senior Co-Captain Julia French for the Crimson's eighth goal...
...opening game features a well-devised trap. But the lad is too slithery to hold, and he is soon en route to maman, with fatal consequences for her. From that fiery shoot-out until checkmate, the contest becomes increasingly taut, vicious and engaging. At each turn, Laemmle edges closer to his goal. At every escape, Thomas becomes a little wearier, a trifle more dependent on a cast of peasants, restaurateurs, shopkeepers and devious intelligence operatives. None are so devious or inventive as he is. The most adept, of course, proves to be Quartermain, flown in to rescue the child...
...straw. Everyone eats from the same dish, though there is little but hard gristle and bone. "We have no ranks," says Abdul Osman, 21. "We are all combatants, we are all volunteers." His job is to teach reading and writing to the troops. After supper he conducts a lesson: "Maman est tres belle .. . Maman a une belle robe . .. Bonjour, maman." Since there are 300 different languages in Chad, French is the lingua franca...