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...eight-point lead—the largest margin either team would enjoy all night. Big-game jitters seemed to affect the Crimson, which failed to convert easy opportunities around the basket early on. “We were just trying to settle it down—it was a matter of nerves,” Knox said. “We tried to focus on defense—that’s where all our offense starts.” While Harvard got back into the game and faced just a four-point deficit at the break, the halftime stats...
...better day.” The junior Senator “points us toward what is possible to achieve if we can unite in common cause.” His very words stir us to action, to forget the sobering reality of recent experience, to believe that anything, no matter how impossible, is possible...
...need of “change”: my status as a minority or my status as a woman. As the campaign wore on, however, I came to realize that I don’t swing towards Hilary Clinton when I am feeling particularly feminine (or feminist, for that matter), and I don’t get excited about Barack Obama when indignant about the social marginalization of Asian Americans. Rather, my strongest pro-Clinton feeling surge at the end of policy debates like last night’s, and hot tears stream down my face as Barack Obama delivers...
...where the host is specifically bringing in the animal by chumming [feeding the sharks with chopped up fish]," says George Burgess, director of the International Shark Attack File at the University of Florida. "Putting people in the water with these large animals is a risk. It's not a matter of whether an attack like this was going to happen, it was when...
...Florida law prevails, all recourse may not be lost for Groh's family. Lidsky explains that a lot depends upon the wording of the waiver. Sometimes a court will void the contract as a matter of public policy because the contract fails to spell out the risk, she says...