Word: nicking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Crimson continued to push B.U. in the second half with offensive runs thwarted by pesky off-side traps. Harvard got a kick-start from the freshman attack tandem of Jonathan Oslowski and Nick Lenicheck, who increased the pressure on Terrier keeper Bryan Murphy. But it was another freshman, unlikely hero Marko Soldo, who gave the Harvard a chance to tie in the 48th minute. Taking a Lenicheck through-ball, Soldo deked out a defender and lined up a shot on goal. The remaining B.U. defender, however, pulled him to the ground before he could pull the trigger, and the ball...
...entrepreneurs based in St. Louis, Mo., formed an organization called the X Prize Foundation and offered a $10 million award to the first designer to develop a ship able to take passengers into space. The trip the sponsors envision is not much--a suborbital lob shot that would barely nick the skin of space. But a little outer space is still outer space, and since the prize was announced, 15 groups have submitted blueprints...
Petruccelli started the attack by feeding freshman midfielder Nick Lenichek, who had beaten his defender down the left sideline. Lenichek rushed to the end-line, then fired a low crossing pass toward the Friar...
...this summer, in search of new experiences and sights and sounds alien to the East Coast of my childhood, I kept one line from F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby in mind, hoping it would ring as true for me as it had for Nick Carraway. "I was simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life," Fitzgerald wrote...
Love is still dogged by questions about Cobain. Earlier this year, filmmaker Nick Broomfield released a documentary titled Kurt and Courtney that portrayed Love as controlling and abusive toward Cobain and even suggested that his death may not have been a suicide. "I don't feel that anyone's in a position of saying Courtney was responsible for doing anything directly in terms of murdering or having Kurt murdered," says Broomfield. "I do believe that there's a lot that we haven't been told, and that all was not well in their relationship, and he was pretty much left...