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...success utilizing faceoffs in its opponent’s zone was evident in McRae’s game-tying goal. The Big Red’s formula for success goes something like this: Rely on Vesce to win the draw, which he usually does. Have the outside wing pinch in and form a screen with Vesce, preventing the opposing team’s forwards from rushing out to attack the defenseman with the puck. Allow Cornell’s accurate shooters to fire free of pressure from the blue line...
Wallace lined a game-winning double to score freshman Morgan Brown—pinch running for freshman Josh Klimkiewicz—and Lentz to clinch the game for the Crimson...
...Stuttgart. "Nobody should pretend that these two things are not linked." That lesson is being learned at the Staatsoper on Unter den Linden in Berlin. The city of Berlin faces debts of more than €45 billion, so the opera house and other premier cultural venues are feeling the pinch. Like all German arts organizations, the Staatsoper relies heavily on state funds. This year, it will receive about €44 million in subsidies out of a total budget of €66 million. Less than 1% of the opera's money comes from private donations, with the rest coming from ticket...
...taste is familiar to anyone who’s eaten the fish sauce-laden cuisines of Thailand and Vietnam. Much like these cuisines, Cambodian food uses an abundance of aromatic herbs for vibrant flavor, fresh chiles for heat and spices for complexity. Dishes are often augmented with a pinch of sugar, supplying a characteristic sweet and sour taste. But it is the distinctive prahok that gives Cambodian food such a unique flavor. And if you can get past the smell, which is often likened to a ripe cheese, the taste is actually rather mild...
With states facing their worst fiscal pinch since World War II and all but one of them required by law to balance their budgets, nearly every Governor is facing unpleasant choices this year. And in an upending of conventional politics, it's the Republicans who are leading the way to higher taxes. Within two days of being sworn in last month as Georgia's first G.O.P. Governor since Reconstruction, Sonny Perdue proposed one of the state's biggest tax hikes ever. Though he backed off when legislators balked, other Republican Governors are forging ahead. Connecticut's John Rowland, elected...