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...with their own hard-earned cash won't be easy. A 2008 campaign to get 100,000 Liverpool fans to each chip in $10,000 toward the cost of buying back the club from its unpopular owners, Tom Hicks and George Gillett, failed to gain momentum. Ongoing uncertainty over their plans for the club - Hicks and Gillett are expected to step down as co-chairmen this week amid the search for a buyer - has meant a revised fundraising effort "won't be going anywhere at the moment," admits James McKenna, secretary of Liverpool supporters' group the Spirit of Shankly...
Harvard’s defense played off the energy of the offense, limiting the Crusaders to only four shots in the half. Sophomore goaltender Kerry Clark, who is also a Crimson news editor, made four key saves to keep Holy Cross from building any momentum...
Brown held onto its lead to end the first period up 2-1, but its momentum entering the next eight minutes did little to slow the Crimson, whose defense stepped up after a less-than-perfect performance this past weekend...
...third period saw the Bears pick up momentum and pull ahead as the strong Crimson defense encountered an obstacle—Purcell, its only left-handed starter, fouled out. At the quarter’s end, Brown...
...short story offers inherent advantages over the novel, stemming simply from the length, which imposes a certain focus and brevity on the author’s prose. The writer can simply offer an evocative scene, without the pressure of maintaining plot momentum and design over the course of a full-length novel. Perhaps the greatest strength of the form is that the story relies so heavily on what is left unsaid. Every gesture, every phrase, every detail in a great story takes on additional significance since it both signals the literal action and evokes everything that is left...