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Harvard’s late-season surge culminated with a 4-3 defeat of Cornell in the ECAC Championship Game at Lake Placid, N.Y. The double-overtime thriller lasted 96:11, making it the longest game in Harvard hockey history...
...second-round take was 33.7% and 40.3% respectively. "What's amazing is that in places like Vauvert, crime is mostly limited to petty acts, and in Saint-Gilles it's virtually unheard of," comments a local police official who requested anonymity. "Relations with the immigrant communities are also relatively placid. So where is the hate vote coming from?" In part from textbook National Front bigotry and fear tactics. During campaigning for the Gardois seat covering Saint-Gilles and Beaucaire last week, National Front candidate and Vauvert native Florence Berthezène handed out leaflets decrying "lynchings, rapes, theft...
Helder's views may explain his placid demeanor when he was taken into custody on charges that could land him in prison for life. He told FBI agents the bombings were meant to draw an enormous smiley face across the map of the U.S. The first clusters of bombs in Illinois and Iowa and the second cluster in Nebraska (which were not set to explode) made up the eyes; the mouth was to run from Colorado through Texas and beyond. Helder dropped the project, he said, because he was gripped by a sudden urge to see the Pacific Ocean...
...lost is not a worry. The main road is never far away and even the smaller temples, though identified only by numbers, are gems waiting to be discovered. Some are empty, others merely contain the shattered bases of iconic images long departed for Western living rooms. But occasionally a placid stone Buddha waits to be stumbled upon in the forgotten recesses of a stupa still in shambles. Or a newly renovated temple houses a well-worshipped modern Buddha that is furred with multiple layers of gold leaf applied by fervent devotees...
...Lake Placid, the Crimson needed a total of three overtime periods to defeat Clarkson and Cornell and secure its first ECAC Championship and NCAA Tournament berth since...