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...night’s game against St. Lawrence. Richter’s stops throughout the game culminated in a career-high 42 saves, leading Harvard to a large margin of victory. Despite several Crimson penalties throughout the game, the Harvard defense killed six out of seven power plays, with Saint Lawrence scoring its only goal in the third period. “The penalty kill knows what it’s doing—they have their jobs, I have my job, and you just have to trust each other when it comes down to situations like that...
Haider contends that Musharraf has proved himself the patron saint of religious fanatics. By limiting the choice in Pakistan to supporting the military or supporting the militants, Musharraf may well have driven millions of Pakistanis into the arms of the terrorists. The spread of anti-Americanism and the rise of Islamic fundamentalism have been fostered by a U.S. policy of supporting Musharraf over the unpredictability of a true democratic process. Rather than forcing Musharraf to seek consensus, and thus enable a representative civilian government that would support him in his campaign against extremism, the U.S.'s tepid response to Musharraf...
...dicey enterprise for Chinese scholars, and never more so than when the subject is a Communist Party figure like Zhou Enlai - China's Premier from the founding of the People's Republic until his death in 1976, and still regarded by the vast majority of Chinese as a saint. "Ordinary people thought he was a good man," says Gao Wenqian, once Zhou's government-appointed biographer and more recently the author of the revisionist (and unofficial) Zhou Enlai: The Last Perfect Revolutionary, now available in a translation by Peter Rand and Lawrence R. Sullivan. "He is like a valuable antique...
...Massachusetts, the most terrifying sight was not the man in the lab coat covered in body parts or any of the copious witches. It was a group of four Christians from Repent America, equipped with signs, megaphone, and fliers, out to warn us that, according to the words of Saint Paul emblazoned on one of their signs, “neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God.” Nathan Tyler, a diminutive man in a plaid shirt, stood...
Adams, the creator of the Dilbert comic strip, is the patron saint of cubicle dwellers. With his cartoons in 2,000 newspapers and 23 books under his belt, Adams' stature in America's workplaces is indisputable. Here he ventures slightly beyond his cube to write "a diary of my thoughts as I transmogrified from a bachelor to a husband," with more than 150 short essays on everything from aging brains to real estate on the moon, all of them delivered with his usual sardonic verve. This offbeat pundit is welcome news on or off the comics page...