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...Crimson’s flurry of goals was largely a result of Fairfield turnovers and Harvard’s ability to scoop up ground balls...
Instead, they got a scoop they hadn’t counted...
...have expected the interviewer to at least quibble a bit, but he was satisfied with his scoop that a liberal Harvard professor of constitutional law would agree to torture. Indeed, they had quite an amiable chat, as though Dershowitz had uttered a seminal thought that had not been thought previously or put into practice by Caligula, Torquemada, Hitler, Stalin...
Journalists are a varied assortment, of course--some of them as shabby, venal or self-important as the cast of Evelyn Waugh's Scoop, the 1937 novel that is still the most hilarious depiction of foreign correspondents and their publishers in the grip of a vigorous incomprehension of just about everything. In the book William Boot, who writes a nature column for a British newspaper called the Beast--composing sentences like "Feather-footed through the plashy fen passes the questing vole"--is recruited by mistake to join a collection of journalistic mountebanks and hacks in covering coup and countercoup...
With 9:22 remaining, Monti sent off a scoop pass over two Eli defenders to Peljto, who promptly scored two, for a score 66-45. It was just one of Monti’s 10 assists for the night, in addition to four steals...