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Sophomore goalkeeper Maria Yatrakis got both her hands on the loose ball but could not retain possession. A scramble for control ensued before co-captain Beth Zotter was able to poke the ball into the back of the net for the game-winning score...
...outdoor-clothing and -gear company based in Ventura, Calif., that seems more interested in protecting the environment than its profits, is about to teach me fly-fishing. Ahead of us, the quicksilver water burbles and shushes. Across the river, the cold mountains, patched with snowfields and dark bruises, poke into a hot, dry sky more white than blue...
...Cornell's Adam Skumawitz managed to poke the ball past Mejias on a breakaway, and at 74:35, Cornell's Lewis Vaughn, sliding to his left, struck the ball off the right post and into the Harvard goal...
...Faculty and tacitly admits that they're usually maligned by the campus press. It might be expected that a group burdened by such bias would fight for redress and vie for special privilege. Some people do expect that, and they perceive a grab for personal accommodation when conservatives poke fun at the institution of victimhood or satirize Harvard's inequitable (on the low side) distribution of minority privilege to the conservative minority here...
Naturally, Perlman has his rationalist assumptions upended. Hansen's serio-comic hero is another good poke at the preening self-confidence of science, in this case the budding efforts at the turn of the century to systematize the study of the mind...