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...painstakingly well crafted and how scrupulous it is. He relishes the process, taking his time, bathing these people in a sea of data in which he has been splashing happily for years. He punctuates his presentation with pithy attention grabbers-"O.K., here's the key fact ... Here's your pivot ..."-and brings to bear much of what he knows about politics. "Here's something you need to know about for defensive purposes," he says, explaining the science behind a terrifying series of slides illustrating how a 20-ft. rise in sea level would swamp Florida, San Francisco, the Netherlands, Calcutta...
...there is another force driving the Bush team to pivot: the ticking of the clock. "It's very hard to do things at the very, very end," said Wendy Sherman, who coordinated North Korean policy in the Clinton State Department. "If the President wants to end eight years and have people say, 'You lost Iraq, you lost Iran, you lost North Korea, and you made the Middle East worse,' it's not a good moment in history. And so the pragmatists are predominant at the moment. This is their window...
...Rogers at the Harvard blue line and sent a slapshot past senior goaltender Justin Tobe just 5:08 into the first frame. The Crimson had a good look at goal later in the first period, as Rogers intercepted a Raiders cross pass, leaving him alone with Dekanich. But the pivot was denied on the slapshot attempt. Harvard continued the offensive pressure in the second period, again outshooting Colgate 11-5. The persistence finally paid off at 18:58, when Harvard freshman Chad Morin took a pass from Tobe, snaked through the Raider defense, and dumped a backhand shot into...
...through the same thing my freshman year,” Reese said, adding, “As long as you play well and get through the first round...the momentum actually just carries over to the second round.” FINAL TICKS Harvard outshot Cornell, 39-27...Senior pivot Kevin Du continued to be proficient in the faceoff circle, winning 12 of 17 draws...Sophomore Jimmy Fraser had a hand in all three Crimson goals, assisting on the first two and scoring the third. —Staff writer Karan Lodha can be reached at klodha@fas.harvard.edu...
...improve our 5-on-5 play.”Trailing 2-1 at the first intermission, Harvard took control of the game in the middle frame.Rogers tied the game just 57 seconds into the period. Picking up the puck in the left corner of the Princeton zone, the pivot skated behind the goal and somehow slipped a shallow backhand shot past Tigers goaltender Zane Kalemba at the right post.“I just tried to wrap it in and flip it through the goalie’s legs,” Rogers said. “I didn?...