Word: marc
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...just his second NHL game, Pittsburgh Penguin Noah Welch ’05 did the unthinkable: he beat his own netminder, Marc-Andre Fleury, and notched a goal for the opposing Montreal Canadiens...
...team’s other top scorers. Junior Tom Hegge was 81st with rounds of 84, 81, and 76, while senior James Cleary was 89th after days of 78, 89, and 77. Freshman John Christensen landed in 104th with scores of 83, 78, and 89, and senior Jean-Marc Monrad rounded out the scoring with scores of 83, 90, and 88, placing 114th. As a team, the Crimson earned a three-day total of 948, six shots better than 17th-place Averett College and four shots behind 15th-place Hampden-Sydney College. More important than the team results...
...Spanish government to monitor xenophobic incidents, "is how generalized the phenomenon has become. At Zaragoza, it was the whole stadium chanting those ape noises, not just a handful of fans." To be sure, racist insults can be heard in stadiums elsewhere in Europe. In Italy last year, Messina's Marc Zoro, an Ivorian, had to be restrained by teammates after he was racially abused by Lazio fans at Rome's Olympic stadium. (Zoro later suffered similar abuse at Inter Milan.) Yet Spain stands out. Duran attributes the xenophobic displays at soccer games to the country's recent influx of immigrants...
...that led France to humiliating defeat in 1940. Failing to rein in public spending for fear of displeasing those who use and abuse it would amount to precisely that today. In Strange Defeat, a superb essay written in the aftershock of France's capitulation in 1940, the historian Marc Bloch wrote: "Let us have the courage to admit what has just been vanquished in ourselves: it is our cherished small-town ways. The languid passage of the days, the slowness of the buses, the sleepy authorities, the shortsighted political bickering, the unambitious artisans, our taste...
...Goodall live in Harvard’s Cognitive Evolution Laboratory along with about 25 other monkeys named after prominent scientists and researchers. The monkeys—both endangered cotton-top tamarins and common marmosets—live a peaceful co-existence under the direction of Professor of Psychology Marc D. Hauser. Hauser, who founded the lab on the tenth floor of William James Hall, started the tradition of bestowing illustrious names on the primates. According to Cushman, this can lead to ridiculous comments. “Without thinking, you’ll say, ‘Steve Pinker...