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...forth by Mahatma Gandhi, who led the fight for India's independence (and to whom the currently feuding family is not related). Says an Indian newspaper editor: "One wonders which Gandhi she's talking about, the Mahatma or Sanjay? They are not the same. One was a saint. The other was very clever, very ambitious and very self-centered...
...strong performance against Harvard the night before, goalie Todd Pearson had thwarted every Saint sally. And St. Lawrence was used to being thwarted, having mustered 44 shots but no goals in its semifinal loss to Providence to become the only team ever blanked in a non-consolation ECAC final-four game...
...Saint rally ran aground when defenseman Mark Leach had to incur a booking penalty to stop a UNH breakaway. Paul Barton tallied his second score of the night for the Wildcats to put the game out of reach...
...NOTEBOOK: Last night's Providence victory was only the fifth shutout ever in ECAC final four action. The last one came in 1973...The game got so sloppy that even basics like getting off the bench posed problems. One Saint tripped climbing over the boards and fell face-down...
Writers who journey through the accounts of his life almost always confess some bafflement about why he was such a great figure in his time and remains so in ours. British Historian Marcus Cunliffe points out that Washington was a good man but not a saint, a competent soldier but not great, thoughtful but not brilliant like Alexander Hamilton. He was a respectable administrator but certainly not a genius. All this and more his biographers have put down. Washington was a prudent conserver but not a brilliant reformer. He was sober unto dullness. He lacked the common touch so much...