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...rare as it is to have two siblings playing on the same team in college sports, it is even rarer to see them combine to produce a crucial play at the end of the game and propel their team to a victory...
...over UConn would help build the Crimson’s case for an NCAA Tournament bid. With only three regular season games remaining, defeating UConn and following up against No. 22 Dartmouth this weekend could propel the Crimson into prime position come selection time...
...Still, Lula's election, should it happen, would be no small matter. Brazil has the largest economy in Latin America; some of the trends that seem likely to propel Lula to power are visible elsewhere on the continent as well. Peter Hakim, president of the Inter-American Dialogue, a Washington think tank, says that Lula's success reflects widespread "unhappiness with the results of economic reform and the quality of leadership." Lula will be nobody's stooge, least of all Washington's. "The U.S. thinks first and foremost of the U.S.," he told Time recently...
Cornell placekicker Trevor MacMeekin nailed a 19-yard field goal in overtime to propel the Big Red to victory. For his heroics, MacMeekin was named Ivy League Special Teams Player of the Week. However, he wouldn’t have had a chance to win the game if Cornell sophomore Joel Sussman hadn’t blocked a Towson field goal earlier in the extra period...
...exempt from the tripartite rancor, early Christians used their understanding of Abraham, who they claimed found grace outside Jewish law, to prove that the older religion begged for replacement--a contention that helped propel almost two millenniums of anti-Semitism...