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...also return to us the things we have shunned--the willingness to believe in things we can feel but cannot see. When I was very young, I used to sit in the living room as Christmas night came to an end, looking at the tree, the lights, the mess of toys and wrappings, and I would feel a sadness drift through me. The dismantling would soon begin, and all that anticipation would have to wait for another year. How did I get from that to the way so many of us feel now--relief that it's over, emotionally spent...
That lead—Harvard’s third of the game after going up 1-0 and 2-1—didn’t last long. Just over two minutes later, St. Cloud’s Andy Lundbohm scored amidst a mess of bodies around Grumet-Morris to tie the score. The Huskies’ Justin Fletcher then added the game-winning goal at 11:22 with a hard shot he fired from between the face-off circles; Grumet-Morris was in position to make the stop but could not, and the puck dribbled between his legs...
...civil affairs, though neither NATO nor the U.N. has shown any appetite for these roles. He has been studiously vague about increasing or decreasing troop strength. I asked Clark if it is possible that there is no plausible "success strategy" in Iraq, if it is just a hopeless mess. He replied with admirable, if distressing, candor, "Yes, but I'm not prepared to concede that...
Meanwhile, Tech Vice President (VP) Matthew J. Ferrante ’05 wants to show Putnam what he has found among the mess: a set of antique poker chips...
...we’ve always turned them down, because we don’t want to know [why we work well together]… We don’t want to mess things up,” he said...