Word: scrum
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...Cohen made it a two-goal game with 6:31 to play.After a Tiger score made it 9-6 with 3:12 remaining and long Princeton possession brought the action down under a minute, sophomore midfielder Zach Widbin made it 9-7 with 12 seconds to go.After a brief scrum following the faceoff, Calvert emerged with an open look that hit the post, ending Harvard’s hope for the improbable comeback.Still, if the Crimson had not let by a few easy goals earlier, the team wouldn’t have had to play from behind...
...just a minute and 45 seconds apart. The 2-2 deadlock held for the rest of the half until the Stags’ Greg Downing scored with just 29 seconds to play in the quarter. It was his second of four goals on the afternoon, and came after a scrum around the net where the Crimson failed on an easy opportunity to clear the ball. While all the bounces seemed to be going Fairfield’s way, the opposite rang true for Harvard. “We had a lot of great shots, but we made a good goalie...
Sophomore center Tyler Magura, leaving a scrum along the left boards in the Harvard zone during the final 20 seconds of the game, skated to the center of the ice and collapsed, staying down for a few minutes as the trainers examined...
...bureau chief from 1990 to 1994--who evolved into a successful businessman. He ran Dow Jones' China operations, was head of the American Chamber of Commerce in Beijing and now is a venture capitalist focusing on technology investments in China. His book is the best to date describing the scrum of trying to do business in China at a point when the hype--the nation of 1 billion customers--is finally starting to become reality. Our little nugget of wisdom on the China market for those wanting to do business there? Read this book...
...before President Bush personally implored Times editors not to publish Risen and Lichtblau's account of how Bush authorized the National Security Agency to wiretap telephone and e-mail communications inside the U.S. without court-sanctioned warrants. The Times ran the article on Dec. 16, touching off a blogospheric scrum: conservatives accuse the Times of aiding terrorists by revealing secrets of U.S. spycraft while liberals say the paper caved to White House pressure by not dropping the bombshell sooner. At the center of the article's backstory is Risen, who unsuccessfully pushed to publish the wiretap report last year, then...