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...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...
...played the previous night, Bono flips through manila folders full of briefing papers to prepare for meetings with Canada's opposition leaders. He fires a few croaky-throated questions at Drummond--"What is this soft-lumber argument between Canada and the U.S.?"--and tries out phrases for the media scrum that will start the day, imagining how they will play in the Canadian papers. "'Make-or-break month for Martin, says Bono,'" he sighs. "Not exactly poetry...
...buzz about grueling sessions and tactical fine-tuning, only to play just as badly the next time. Many observers have railed about favoritism shown to the ageing captain. But the team's problems go beyond George Gregan. Success in rugby - an infuriatingly stop-start game - starts with the scrum, and Jones leaves behind an Australian scrum that is an embarrassment. While the back line can execute moves of dazzling geometry, they too seldom touch the ball, partly because the brutes in the engine room simply can't push as hard as the other...
...surrendered the first goal on a wild scrum off a loose puck, the second on a rebounded flick shot, and on the final score she was the victim of a sloppy line change on the penalty kill that opened up a 3-on-1 the other way for the Wildcats...
...with just seven seconds remaining in the game. “Just one of those nights, I guess,” Daigneau said. “Things went our way.” The only goal of the night was scored just 5:27 into the game. With a scrum around Wildcats goaltender Kevin Regan, freshman defenseman Brian McCafferty skated in from the blue line and stuffed the rebound of junior pivot Kevin Du’s shot low into the right side netting. But given the goal-scoring proficiency of both Harvard and UNH, neither team imagined that...