Word: redeeming
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Hagerman got a chance to redeem herself a few minutes later on Harvard’s own power play. After receiving a pass from junior defenseman Pamela Van Reesema, she whipped a pass across the neutral zone to Catlin who skated in with one defender to beat. Instead of opting for the deke, Catlin angled to the right of the defender and fired a perfect wrist shot, beating Gunn top shelf to tie the game...
...either Alexei Yagudin, a three-time world champion, or his teammate Evgeni Plushenko, the reigning world gold medalist, will probably keep up the golden streak of Russian champions established in the past three Winter Games. Yagudin, who trains in the U.S., is a passionate performer and is eager to redeem his fifth-place finish in Nagano, where he was laid low by the flu. Plushenko is just as accomplished but far less polished. His program music is usually a bewildering pastiche of movie sound tracks, and the choreography is just as disjointed, but he never fails to impress with...
Dutch was a postmodern stunt that dumbfounded most critics. It also left a radioactive glow around the edges of Morris' reputation. Two years later, Theodore Rex offers Morris the chance to redeem himself by returning to the field of his first triumph. And let the record show that at no point in this book does Morris introduce himself into a subplot of the action. On the mid-September day in 1901 when Vice President Roosevelt gets word that President William McKinley has succumbed to an assassin's bullet, Morris isn't the messenger who brings the telegram. When Teddy plots...
...just disapointing to lose the final game in the fashion that we did especially with so much at stake,” Harvard Coach John Kerr. “Hopefully we’ll get a chance to get into the NCAA playoffs and give ourselves a chance to redeem ourselves...
Hitchens has disdain in abundance; for the ideal of consensus, for religion and piety, for phony populism and for any number of perceived half-truths, betrayals, insincerities and miscarriages of justice. But he manages to redeem himself from excessive negativity, or intellectual masturbation, for that matter, by offering at least some valuable direction: “Beware the irrational, however seductive. Shun the ‘transcendent’ and all who invite you to subordinate or annihilate yourself. Distrust compassion; prefer dignity for yourself and others. Don’t be afraid to be thought arrogant or selfish.... Seek...