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...Henderson scored on a header. With one minute remaining, the Eagles almost grabbed the win when another shot deflected off the post. In overtime, neither team could notch the game-winner and the contest ended without a victor. Although the Crimson gave up a late goal, Leone was very proud of his team’s performance. “The team effort was amazing,” he said. “They were just very plugged in together. Of course [Mann] played well and the 10 in front of her did everything they could to keep the ball...
...Holy Cross encapsulated the school spirit Harvard often lacks. Even without the heroic comeback—the two touchdown dives that ignited fans—Harvard was a winner on Friday night because of the way the game rallied the campus community. But rather than sitting back and feeling proud about a fun evening and a Crimson victory, the College should instead take stock of their success and create more like-minded events. The inclusion of non-Harvard students at (every Harvard student could bring a non-Harvard guest, free of charge) added another dynamic dimension to the event. Along...
...Proud as Virgil and Everett are of their trigger speed, they're just as infatuated with fancy speech. At the start of the film, a narrator says, "Life has a way of making the foreseeable that which never happens, and the unforeseeable that which your life becomes." The "that which" clues the viewer to the ornate language the cowboys will try wrapping their tongues and minds around. It's as if they'd just read two novels - one by Ned Buntline, the other by Henry James - and are determined to arrange a shotgun marriage of the pair...
...Woodruff. Time was a co-sponsor of the forum and the summit the following day, which included First Lady Laura Bush, Caroline Kennedy and Senators Hillary Clinton and Orrin Hatch. It was there that Senator Hatch announced his bipartisan national-service bill, co-sponsored by Ted Kennedy. I'm proud of TIME's continued leadership on this front, and I'm already looking forward to our third annual service issue next year...
...rigorously Mr. Wright, a personal friend and distinguished journalist, pursues the finest, epiphanal details that are so often ignored by professional historians. The 60 pages of footnotes and list of more than 500 individuals he interviewed for his “journalistic” work would do any historian proud...