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Crothers is one of the most athletic and explosive players on the team. He was a highly-touted prospect out of the Canadian junior leagues whom Mazzoleni recruited as the team’s goaltender of the future. Mazzoleni hopes Crothers’s year of experience watching Jonas and hard training over the summer will...
...Although General Pervez Musharraf remains solidly behind the U.S. campaign and appears to have accepted that bombing won't be halted for the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, Pakistan remains a dangerous prospect for U.S. military operations. Local authorities have warned the U.S. to keep a low profile in military operations from their territory. While Musharraf has thus far contained anti-American protests from Islamic radicals, Ramadan is likely to see an uptick in anger as far more Muslims visit mosques on a daily rather than weekly basis...
...prospect of another difficult read might make readers wary of taking on the University of Cambridge physicist's latest work, The Universe in a Nutshell (Bantam; 216 pages; $35). That would be a loss. Hawking takes on plenty of intimidating topics in Nutshell, including space-time geometry, quantum mechanics and the ominously titled M-theory. But he does it in a much more accessible way this time, using plenty of comprehensible analogies and no small amount of humor, often self-deprecating. Example: "Newton occupied the Lucasian chair at Cambridge that I now hold, though it wasn't electrically operated...
Kirshner says that the prospect of more House socializing was one of the main reasons he approved the establishment of a Quincy Stein Club...
...studio album, Make Yourself. Despite their sell-out hit, “Drive,” with its acoustic accompaniment and self-motivating lyrics, Incubus have largely been compared to angrier, more aggressive bands like the Foo Fighters and the Red Hot Chili Peppers. But it seems that the prospect of commercial success has gone to Incubus’ collective heads, and on View, the raw energy of their early work is reworked and toned down into something more accessible...