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...goal past the junior netminder with 4:04 left in the final frame, but the play was contested by Harvard, as it seemed that Yale’s Brian O’Neill had charged the goalie. The referees reviewed the play, and though O’Neill was sent to the box for the infraction, the Yale goal was allowed.Riley now has a team-high save percentage of .898 for the season, with 53 saves and six goals allowed. His career save percentage is .906, topping both Hoyle and Carroll’s percentages.Freshman Matt Hoyle, who served...
...classic tale of Chicago politics involves a young man eager to plunge into a Democratic campaign. The skeptical ward boss asks who sent him. "We don't want nobody that nobody sent," he snarls...
Chicago's Roland Burris had the opposite problem when he strode into the U.S. Capitol to succeed Barack Obama as the junior Senator from Illinois. Senate majority leader Harry Reid didn't want nobody that somebody sent--if that somebody was Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich, arrested in December on charges that he was plotting to sell Obama's seat. Burris, who wasn't accused of any wrongdoing, was rebuffed by the secretary of the Senate. Instead of entering the chamber's cozy confines, where he would have stepped into Obama's role as the lone African American, he retreated...
...leap to 8.5% by the end of 2009 (it was 6.5% in October 2008). If the state runs out of cash by mid-February, as has been predicted, hundreds of state vendors, such as electrical-supply wholesalers, food-service companies and building- and grounds-maintenance firms, will be sent IOUs from the state government. Deductions for each dependent may drop from $309 to $103 on Californians' 2009 income tax forms. And, by the way, don't count on a tax refund showing up soon after you file in April - one of those IOUs may find its way to your mailbox...
...over Israel's vaunted power of deterrence, which is key to keeping its hostile neighbors at bay. That power was badly eroded in 2006, when Hizballah was able to withstand the Israeli onslaught, force a cease-fire and claim victory in the process. That surely emboldened Hamas, which intermittently sent rockets into southern Israel and finally prompted Israel to respond in force. As respected Israeli columnist Nahum Barnea wrote in the Hebrew daily Yedioth Ahronoth, "A country that is afraid to deal with Hamas won't be able either to deter Iran or to safeguard its interests in dealing with...