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...break a scoreless tie and propel Harvard (2-3, 1-0 Ivy) to a 1-0 victory. Dickson’s goal came on a penalty stroke with 10:04 remaining in the game. The penalty came after Dickson fired a shot that was blocked. On the ensuing scrum, Yale (1-3, 0-1 Ivy) committed the infraction that afforded Dickson a stroke. The freshman fired the shot at the top right corner of the goal. Bulldogs goalie Charlotte Goins deflected the ball, but not enough to prevent it from reaching the back...
...their jobs. Executive recruiters bustled around, extending business cards to anyone whose suit suggested he or she might be a banker. A man leaning against the building's facade held aloft a printed sign on white letter-sized paper: LOOKING TO HIRE SYS ADMIN. Most employees passed through the scrum without acknowledging...
...other runners sniggered when they saw Abebe Bikila turn up at the start of the Olympic marathon with no shoes. As a television camera scanned the scrum of athletes readying themselves for the starter's gun, a commentator asked: "And what's this Ethiopian called?" It was 1960, Rome. Africa was just shrugging off the weight of colonial rule and some sporting officials still doubted Africans were ready for the big time. A little over 2 hr. 15 min. later that myth lay shattered by the slight man wearing number 11, a member of Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie's Imperial...
...experience The Waterfalls. I suspect that won't turn out to be true. Gliding past them on the boat is a passive experience, and will probably be a crowded one, a bit like trying to see the Trevi Fountain these days behind the day-and-night tourist scrum that surrounds it. At the very least, don't get on board looking for that sense of secular consecration and almost sacramental mystery that you could experience sometimes around The Gates at twilight. Approaching them on foot may be a different experience. I expect to go back...
...goal second-quarter output had Harvard up 6-3 at halftime. The Crimson led for the bulk of the second half, too, until Denver tied the game at 8-8 with 5:49 to play in regulation.But just over a minute later, junior midfielder Max Motschwiller emerged from a scrum in front of the Pioneer net and flipped a goal past Denver netminder Austin Konkel to give Harvard a 9-8 lead with less than five minutes to go.The Pioneers couldn’t muster a goal on their next possession, as junior goalie Joe Pike made...