Word: nailed
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...immediately after the game than he is after most losses. He ripped into his players for taking numerous “unnecessary” penalties—including six in the third period—that allowed the Catamounts to turn a 3-0 deficit into a 3-2 nail-biter with a pair of power-play goals...
This year was especially painful. For while the Crimson (29-2-1) had won both previous meetings this season with archrival Dartmouth (26-7-0)—a 9-2 shellacking in Hanover over a depleted Big Green squad and a 2-1 nail-biter in Cambridge—when it mattered most, Harvard came up short...
...have welcomed the emergence of a more democratically accountable and antiterrorist leadership around Prime Minister-designate Mahmoud Abbas (aka Abu Mazen), nobody is expecting that he'll be willing to accept less than a settlement based on a modified version of the 1967 borders. Sharon, who fought tooth and nail against the Oslo peace process, has, until now, signaled that he has no intention of offering anything close to that - indeed, Israeli analysts believe Sharon's idea of Palestinian statehood doesn't extend much beyond a modified version of the 40-50 percent of the West Bank and Gaza currently...
Krauthammer hit the nail on the head when he described the desire to reconfigure the Middle East as the reason behind Bush's drive to war. The President's arrogance is breathtaking. It is also telling that the White House does not pitch these imperialistic motives as casus belli but cravenly relies on the pretexts of combatting terrorism and weapons of mass destruction. OSMAN ANWER Toronto...
...forgotten just how closely those two questions could be linked. The girls’ concern reminded me of my Balkanized high school, where the cliques identified themselves by what they wore; an unbridgeable gulf lay between the preppy soccer players and the black-clad, black-nail-polished kids (for whom I feel a nostalgic pang every time I pass the Harvard Square T station) who haunted an alcove by the soda machine; another gulf lay between those Goths and the swaggering boys who affected a gangsta style. Each of the major clothing-based castes was further subdivided; the school?...