Word: secondment
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...Second chances in life are hard to come by. For the Harvard men’s soccer team, that proved true yesterday. And now, a tougher challenge may lie ahead...
...fascinated by trauma. His first novel, the critically acclaimed “Everything is Illuminated,” chronicled his young facsimile’s eastern European journey to unpack the lives of his Holocaust-survivor relatives. “Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close,” his second, was a deeply-felt emotional mosaic about the resonance between the 9/11 attacks and the Dresden firebombings. Foer’s first work of nonfiction, “Eating Animals,” has a different sort of trauma in mind: the suffering inflicted on livestock by the American meat industry...
...flip side it would’ve been a chance for our guys to prove that that was a one-time thing,” Harvard coach Jamie Clark said. “In some ways you want a chance to play a team a second time [but] on other hand you don’t want that mental baggage of a game earlier in the season hanging over you [because] it can provide motivation or worry...
...been ranked in the national top-10 for seven consecutive weeks. And they feature one of the best defenses in the country, leading the nation in shutout percentage—they’ve held 70% of their opponents, including UConn yesterday, scoreless—and rank second in the country in goals against average (0.35 per game) and save percentage...
...Crimson’s attack also features the Ivy League Rookie of the Year, Brian Rogers, the team’s second leading scorer with six regular-season goals. Rogers and Akpan will have possibly their toughest challenge of the year going up against the NEC’s defensive player of the year, senior Dan Bostock, and elite goalie Bryan Meredith...