Word: shifting
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...power play, slamming the puck through traffic and past the right post to tie the game at three. Harvard was hit with two more penalties before the period was over, including a 5-on-3 at the halfway point. Although the Crimson was able to kill those penalties, the shift to defense may have limited Harvard’s chances on the net at a critical time. The Crimson recorded seven penalties over the course of the night. “We’ve been working real hard on eliminating our penalties because they have cost...
...talks, although he is expected to address the gathering after the end of the summit. The meeting, Barnett says, is "explicitly a response by the Dalai Lama to criticism that his charisma has cramped any space for real discussion." But no one is expecting Tibetans to suddenly shift course from the "middle path," which advocates for negotiating with Beijing for autonomy, not independence, and has been steered so carefully by their spiritual leader for the past 30 years. Instead, the summit will be considered a success if it reaches some consensus on how to choose the Dalai Lama's successor...
...that one shift where Joe Smith ended up scoring, and the line of Jimmy Fraser, Steve Rolecheck, and Colin Moore, cycled it for about thirty seconds, getting all five guys involved, and that’s what we worked on all week,” Coskren said...
...Jacobs says he does not expect a huge shift in recounting residual votes. "The bigger issue is how we handle these absentee ballots [which are the subject of the Franken lawsuit]," he says. Mark Jeranek, who voted for Franken, cast an absentee ballot in Beltrami County, located in northwestern Minnesota, that was rejected because he didn't sign the envelope in which he placed his ballot. The Franken campaign sent him an affidavit that he is considering signing. "I don't want to be a cause for revolution, but at the same time I want my vote to count...
...year-old recently started primary school in Istanbul. By the second week, his favorite superhero, Spider-Man, had been supplanted by a flesh-and-blood mortal who died 70 years ago: Mustafa Kemal, better known as Atatürk, the founder of modern Turkey. The boy's shift of allegiance is a universal rite of passage in Turkey, where children are raised on a diet of passionate poems, military derring-do and sanitized history that elevate the national hero into a demigod. (See pictures of cultures co-existing in Istanbul...