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Certainly Cowan was the backbone of thedefense. The Ontario native shut down the Pennoffense with her prowess in the net, making threeclutch saves...
...these first three years of freedom meant the outpouring of national pride in the prowess of our sporting teams, in our new constitution and more, then this past year has been one in which slowly but surely we are all coming to better appreciate the difficulties of change, as well as the sweat and toil required to improve our lives and forge out our unity as a nation," Mandela said in his most recent New Year's address to the nation...
...very easily. India was driven to show off its atomic prowess by a newly aroused nationalism that will be hard to squelch and a macho sense of pride at joining the big boys in the still exclusive nuclear club. Pakistan, citing security fears, responded in kind. Neither country has in place any of the protective mechanisms that helped keep the superpower rivalry in check. Over four decades, the U.S. and the Soviet Union built spy satellites to watch each other's weapons, installed a hot line so the two leaders could communicate directly during crises, and negotiated treaties to contain...
Sinatra--this is both his gift and, on occasion, his downfall--is always Sinatra. Beyond his technical prowess as a jazz-influenced pop singer, building on the innovations of Louis Armstrong, Bing Crosby and Billie Holiday, there is the sheer force of conviction, feeling, the weight of personal history in his voice. In this, only Holiday is his rival--perhaps even his better. Both exemplify what people in my generation like to flatter ourselves is unique to rock 'n' roll and its offshoots: the immediacy, the idiosyncrasy, the genuineness of expression. Sinatra is the century's musical equipoise, the pivot...
Clemente's long-range prowess was part of what became the best three-point shooting team in school history. Harvard made a school-record 188 shots from behind the arc and twice set the school record for threes in a single game--against Southern Methodist and Brown--with...