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...deflect it.” The Crimson scored its second goal eight minutes later. After an unsuccessful penalty corner, Harvard regained possession, and Jafar got the ball in the right side of the circle along the end line. With no one around her, Jafar wound up and blasted a rocket past Labarge for a 2-0 lead. The Crimson expanded its lead midway through the half when McCoy scored her first goal of the game. The forward received the ball on the left half of the circle, raced along the end line, and snuck a close range shot...
...said of Grimm’s performance.On paper, Harvard was the superior team, and once the game started, it was clear that a surprise result was unlikely. After dominating possession in the opening exchanges, the Crimson began to create chances about 15 minutes into the match. Grimm sent a rocket just over the bar from 40 yards out, and then five minutes later Sager got a little closer, hitting the post on another long-range effort.Harvard did not give up on the strikes from distance, however, and it paid off in the 26th minute. Fucito received the ball 25 yards...
...member of my family, I saw it as my prerogative—my duty even—to vocalize all displeasures and frustrations as often as possible. Take an easy coming-of-age task like swallowing a pill for example—this eluded my single-digit-self like rocket science...
...back at the station: "They see that we are out in force and so they hide in their home. You can dress up what we do with fancy operational names, but it's just policing - you put bobbies on the street, and crime goes down. It ain't rocket science...
Pirates aren't picky. Armed with Kalashnikovs and rocket launchers and using skiffs mounted with high-powered engines launched from "motherships" disguised as fishing boats, the buccaneers who prowl the waters off the Somali coast pick their prey from the passing shipping traffic like lions selecting a kill: the slower and more defenseless, the better. "We hijack every ship we can," Sugule Ali, a pirate captain, told TIME by satellite phone this week...