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Cavanagh, whose father, three-time All-American Joe ’71, has already done plenty to ensure the family a place in the school’s puck annals, played the subsequent period with skate blades afire. He scored 10 seconds after the opening draw, cutting across the grain to backhand in Harvard’s first goal of the night. “That was the turning point,” Harvard coach Mark Mazzoleni said last week...
...leader Sir Mekere Morauta decided to join it. In mid May, saying, "the nation needs stability," he took most of his P.N.G. Party into Somare's 12-party coalition. A week later, Somare sacked seven Cabinet ministers, including four members of the People's National Congress, whose founder, Bill Skate, was Speaker of Parliament - and thus acting Governor-General. "We need a government intact," Somare explained, "a government to continue and complete its term of office...
Bent on a different outcome, Skate joined Opposition plotters at the provincial town of Alotau, saying he had "bugger all" to do as acting vice-regent and wanted to be a politician again. Some government M.P.s too were enticed to Alotau; others, bearing offers of ministries and vice-ministries, were sent to lure them back. Repentant rebels later said they'd been intimidated by political minders with pistols; "I had to swim with the tide," said one, "until I could get away safely...
...weapons by armed police. The Opposition accused Somare of "resorting to undemocratic ways" but couldn't match the numbers on the government benches. Former diplomat Sir Paulias Matane was elected as Governor-General, but the expected no-confidence motion didn't come. Next day, the government voted to sack Skate as Speaker. Unable to stop the move, most of the Opposition stormed...
Until Parliament sits again, on June 29, P.N.G. will be run - as it usually is these days - by Cabinet and the courts. The busiest people in Port Moresby are judges, who are now deciding whether the five-month adjournment of Parliament was constitutional, whether Skate breached the Leadership Code when he quit as acting vice-regent, whether Skate's removal as Speaker was proper, and whether Matane or Sir Pato Kakaraya, the winner of the December vote, should be sworn in as the next Governor-General. Urgent issues like poverty, crime and corruption, a looming aids crisis, decaying infrastructure...