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ASSASSINATED. Pierre Gemayel, 34, outspoken anti-Syrian Lebanese Minister of Industry and son of former President Amin Gemayel; after three gunmen shot him at point-blank range as he was driving on a busy street; in Beirut. A rising political star in the Christian Phalange Party, founded by his grandfather and namesake, he was the fifth anti-Syrian leader in the past two years to be murdered. Parliament member Saad Hariri, son of former Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri, who was killed last year, vowed to find and prosecute those responsible...
...season-long highlight reel of outstanding saves when she leapt to tip Alison Peters’s breakaway shot just over the crossbar. But Mann (six saves) was helpless on the two goals that did make Holy Cross’s side of the scoreboard, as Stand converted from point-blank range on both attempts. Overtime games have not been kind to Harvard this season. Just last Friday, Brown’s Kathryn Moos converted a penalty kick in overtime to send Harvard back to Cambridge with a 2-1 loss. Starting with a crushing loss in double-overtime...
...state agents, she alleged), just as she was on the verge of brokering talks between senior Russian officials and Chechen separatist leaders to save the children. She barely survived that experience, but the death threats kept coming. Her enemies finally succeeded in silencing her with four bullets fired at point-blank range...
...able to the entire game.” Mann was able to rebound after relinquishing that first half goal, producing multiple diving saves to keep Harvard in the game. The biggest of them came in the 70th minute as Mann made a stunning kick save on a point-blank shot from six feet away. With the defense locked down, the Crimson offense came out firing in the second half, and the scoring opportunities increased just as steadily as the team’s focus and intensity grew until the end of the game. In the first two minutes...
...opportunity after another.” During the first half, Mann shined against the counterattack attempts, coming off her line to make three key stops on possible breakaways. Mann also came up with a diving save on a shot from six feet out during the 26th minute, deflecting the point-blank St. Mary’s strike out wide. While Mann was quiet during the second half and first overtime, she once again came up big in the second extra frame, this time with five seconds left in the game. Gael striker Mika Matsui broke through and seemed to have...