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...game winless slide on Saturday night, beating Providence 2-0 at the Bright Hockey Center and regaining crucial momentum that it will take into Friday’s game against No. 5 Dartmouth.Coming into the game having played four matches in the previous eight days, including a draining overtime showdown against New Hampshire the night before, the Crimson (12-2-1, 9-1-0 ECAC) hoped to clear up a number of questions. Will health be a nagging problem? Does the team have the mental and physical stamina it will need to grind through the season? Is Harvard ready...
...could provide an extra incentive. The final contest of the three should still be fresh in the minds of the Crimson skaters, as the Wildcats ended Harvard’s season with a 3-1 win in the quarterfinal round of the NCAA tournament. Moreover, tonight’s showdown offers the Crimson a chance to rebound from a 3-2 loss to UConn earlier this week. In last season’s meetings, it was Harvard’s defense that struggled mightily, as the Crimson was outscored, 11-2, over the three games. Maintaining, then, what has proven...
...historian’s prefatory note suggests, her story’s competing subplots move inexorably toward a climatic showdown in a crypt. It is no great surprise that when the lord of the undead finally appears, he is the “shadowy claw” of history...
...Francisco liberal, she succeeded in keeping the focus on them. And the first woman Speaker-to-be was pitch-perfect in the euphoric days that followed the Democrats' big win. She said the right things, and she did the right things, like quietly reshuffling her ranks to avoid a showdown between Rahm Emanuel, the campaign-committee chief who delivered her majority, and James Clyburn, a senior member of the black caucus. Even the arrival of her sixth grandchild seemed auspiciously timed to remind everyone of her motherly side. Yet before many Democrats across the country had even taken down their...
...billed as an apocalyptic showdown: A band of scared but stubborn gay Israelis who wanted to celebrate their sexuality on a march through Jerusalem, versus 100,000 ultra-Orthodox Jews who vowed to tear the gays into confetti-sized pieces for turning the Holy City into "Sodom...