Word: paolini
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Christopher Paolini is just like any other kid: he wrote a medieval fantasy novel full of dragons, dwarfs and Old Norse at 17, his homeschooler parents self-published it, and novelist Carl Hiaasen's young stepson read the book while fly-fishing. But then things took an odd turn. Hiaasen's publisher Knopf bought Eragon, as the book is titled, and Paolini's next two for six figures. Now Eragon is outselling four of the five Harry Potter books. Paolini, 19, may go on to college or, he says, "take a vacation." That is, if he can find a place...
...just shot it as hard as I could,” Paolini said...
...that had led to the Big Red’s sweep of the regular season series. It took less than a minute for Cornell to get on the power play, and less than two minutes for the Big Red to notch the game’s first goal. Fittingly, Paolini opened the scoring, deflecting in a Stephen Bâby slap shot. In three meetings with the Crimson this season, Cornell scored the first goal in the opening two minutes each time...
...ECAC championship game was a gem. It had great offense, great defense, great goaltending and great individual efforts (Moore’s pocket-pick of Cornell defenseman Mark McRae and his goal seconds later come to mind). It also had a hero—Big Red forward Sam Paolini, the former walk-on who scored the overtime game-winner...
Legends like Fields and Paolini were built this season. Unfortunately for the Crimson, too many of them were wearing the wrong colors...