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...like that in the net.” With the pressure mounting off the heels of consecutive Camel goals to cut the lead at five, Conn. College coach JJ Addison was ejected from the game for dissent towards the end of the second period. The ejection served as a precursor of things to come, as the Crimson relentlessly blitzed the Camel net in the third quarter, scoring six unanswered goals to push the lead to an insurmountable margin. Junior David Tune led all scorers with three goals, and Bret Voith, Michael Byrd, Jeff Lee, and Dan Furman all contributed...
...game will be the Crimson’s third road contest in the season’s first four weeks, the precursor to three straight home games and the meat of the Ivy League season. Harvard has lost three straight games on the road dating back to last season, and four of five overall...
...Egen did a great job, and it was huge for us to try and stay in the game,” he added.Even with the ejection and turnover troubles, Harvard fought valiantly until the final whistle, ultimately coming up short by two goals.PRINCETON 10, HARVARD 8Serving as a precursor to the rest of the weekend, the Crimson jumped out to an early lead against the Tigers and held a 5-4 lead at the onset of the second quarter before succumbing to a string of turnovers and allowing Princeton to gain the lead in the second half and pull away...
...ancient precursor of sushi would probably be unrecognizable to the modern diner. Raw fish was packed in jars with layers of rice and fermented for weeks, like pungent cheese. These days, of course, sushi is as innocuous as a Big Mac, and just as ubiquitous. In The Zen of Fish, Trevor Corson reports that even the Wal-Mart in Plano, Texas, has its own sushi counter...
...After all, the area around Qahataniya was the scene of a major anti-insurgent operation barely two years ago. In the fall of 2005, some 8,000 American and Iraqi troops flushed a terrorist group out of the nearby town of Tal Afar in an operation that was a precursor to the "clear, hold and build" strategy that underpins the current "surge." A few months later, President Bush cited Tal Afar as a success story for the U.S. enterprise in Iraq...