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...first game of the season for both teams, execution-wise, but I knew it was going to be a tough game,” said Harvard coach Ted Donato ’91.In his first collegiate start, freshman Matt Hoyle turned away 30 shots for the night. His only misstep came in the first period, when Dartmouth’s Scott Fleming converted on the power play from in front of the net at 14:54 to even the score at 1-1.“The team was helping me out a lot,” Hoyle said...

Author: By Robert T. Hamlin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Crimson Shakes Off Early Rust in Late Spurt | 11/2/2008 | See Source »

...convergence of an Oscar winner (Voight), an Oscar nominee (Norton), an Oscar wanna-be (Farrell) and a Tony winner (Ehle) ought at least to provide solid acting, and in stretches it manages that. Voight, navigating some dreadful dialogue, doesn't make a misstep; Norton executes his usual business of revealing little but threatening plenty; and Ehle, her head shaved as a cancer patient, deftly underplays her function of providing the poignant feminine touch. But by the the movie's climax, which discards the standard sibling shootout for bare-knuckles barroom machismo, and throws in the instant insanity of a secondary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Five Fast Takes from Toronto | 9/14/2008 | See Source »

...logjam was a major misstep for a company that markets its products as simpler, more elegant and easier to use than the competition's. "The store is basically broken at this point," said Michael Rose, a blogger for tuaw.com, which reports on Apple. When he tried to upgrade his older iPhone Touch early Friday to take advantage of the new software, he says he received an error message informing him the iTunes store was unavailable (the iPhone must be authenticated through Apple's iTunes program to complete a software upgrade). Adds Rose, "I think the lesson is that nobody executes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Apple Bungles its iPhone 3G Launch | 7/12/2008 | See Source »

Back & Forth: Clinton's Kennedy Misstep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 5/29/2008 | See Source »

...misstep made Obama think he could take Rush on. So in Obama jumped--only to discover he would have to fight for every vote. Rush started off with 90% name recognition, vs. 9% for Obama, a poll showed. The challenger had hoped to find common ground with Daley, but the mayor saw no percentage in crossing a sitting Congressman. Daley, according to his brother Bill, told Obama that just because Rush had been creamed for the mayoralty didn't mean he could be dethroned by a newcomer. "You're not going to win," Daley said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama: How He Learned to Win | 5/8/2008 | See Source »

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