Word: placing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...those of you familiar with the Skating Dutchmen, you might remember that they largely unsuccessful last year, finishing in last place with a pathetic 1-19-2 record...
Meanwhile, Union (3-8-0, 2-2-0)--who was expected to once again be the bottom feeder of the ECAC--has surprised everyone by defeating reigning league champion Clarkson and first place Colgate earlier this year...
...first discover the Las Vegas miracle back in 1992 when all the renovation began to transform a pop culture embarrassment into a pop culture extravaganza. Seven years later, it's the most popular vacation destination in the world. The obvious question: why? How can a place that allegedly has prostitutes cavorting on the Strip, rednecks losing their family savings at the slot machines and streets burdened with violent crime attract your average vacationer? Because that, my friends, is an urban legend that had a hold on our imagination until about two years ago--and the myth has finally been exploded...
...hardly needs saying that boot camp is hardly a place for the thoughtful, but here solitude is almost mathematically impossible to find. Go to the latrine at three in the morning and you find two soldiers, up on the guard shift, polishing their boots in the shower and murmuring in Spanish. Go anywhere - I mean anywhere - without a "battle buddy" and you're at the mercy of any drill sergeant who happens by; technically you can be considered AWOL for walking past the barracks alone. Inside, there is someone everywhere; outside, the PX across the street is unattainable without...
...course, it makes sense - loneliness is the enemy for most here, and this place can be hard on what they call the "mental housing," especially for the de-feminized females whose boyfriends have stopped writing. But for those far beyond high school - and thus for the most part far beyond needing clamor to keep one's mind off this place's occasional rigors - it's the clamor that threatens to corner...