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...Harvard's best chances to notch a point came at 13:06 on the penalty kill. Moore and younger brother Dominic surged down the ice in the man-down situation and fired a sequence of shots on netminder Nick Boucher. Summerfelt raced in to make the final save as Boucher was out of position on the third shot from the elder Moore...
...news seems agitated. It arrives in surreal and disturbed condition - a notch stranger than its usual agitated banality. The surreal can be hilarious, too, of course. I have before me a headline from the Wednesday Business section of the New York Times: "TRADE FEUD ON BANANAS NOT AS CLEAR AS IT LOOKS." I challenge any of you to improve on that...
channeled the frustration into stepping up a notch in the fourth and managed to pull through...
...maybe it will. Though there didn't seem to be too many show buyers there, the girls did catch the attention of a representative from a respected Hollywood talent firm. Chris Coelen, an agent at top notch United Talent Agency - clients include Jim Carrey, Harrison Ford, Barry Levinson and Charlize Theron - was most enthused by the ladies. He danced energetically with Amy and assured her that if she appeared on the Hooters TV show he would be willing to try and get her a hosting slot on the Travel Channel...
...historical records. But the power and charm of True History arise not from fidelity to facts but rather from the voice Carey invents for Ned Kelly, the son of Irish parents (his father a transported criminal), barely educated by a British schoolmaster who thought that "all micks was a notch beneath the cattle." Like most criminals, Ned believes he is innocent, that whatever wrongs he committed were acts of self-defense against an unjust society bent on crushing him and all like him, the rootless poor robbed of their past. "That is the agony of the Great Transportation," he muses...