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...power-play goal—the Crimson went 1-for-4 on the power-play for the game—marked the only time the team scored.Harvard’s stinginess on the power-play could not stop UAH from using the man-advantage to pull away in the third. Kevin Morrison struck for the Chargers only power-play goal of the evening at 5:30 to make the score 3-0. The game also marked junior John Riley’s first collegiate start in goal. Riley finished the night with 25 saves. Though challenged in the first...
...When a father doesn't have enough money for his three daughters' dowries, dooming them, apparently, to forced prostitution, Nicholas leaves three bags of gold outside the girls' home (or, according to a different version of the story, in their shoes) to keep them from having to pull an Ashley Alexandra Dupré. This is one of the few stories based on some sort of historical record and it explains Nicholas' reputation as a gift-giver...
...Clement Clark Moore writes a poem for his children, beginning with the iconic lines, "'Twas the night before Christmas." Within one reading, Nicholas shortens his name to Nick, gains weight, starts smoking and adopts seven more reindeer (probably to pull his excess weight). He embarks on his first breaking-and-entering spree...
...Obama's motorcade arrived at the highway pull-off overlooking the ocean at the same spot where Obama tossed a lei into the ocean in August in memory of his mother, who died in 1995. Obama, his wife Michelle and their daughters climbed over a stone wall to get closer to the water. The sun was out and the wind was blowing strongly. More than a dozen people headed over the wall and down the rocky shoreline with them. The ceremony appeared to further cement Obama's emotional ties to Hawaii. "In his heart and in his soul...
...both sides. Two weeks ago, Dodik's government decided to remove the adjective "Bosnian" from the names of several towns in the Serbian Republic. Meanwhile, in once multi-ethnic Sarajevo, a decree by Bosniak officials introducing compulsory lessons in the Koran to kindergarteners prompted remaining Serbs and Croats to pull their children out of school. "Instead of showing some statesmanship, Bosnian political leaders are practicing petty politics", complains the current OHR chief, Slovakian diplomat Miroslav Lajcak...