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Meanwhile, the Eagles will play without their starting goaltender, freshman Allison Rutledge, for the Saturday contest. Rutledge received a game disqualification for fighting in Niagara’s 2-1 victory over Findlay. The skirmish erupted when Findlay players crashed into Rutledge after she covered up the puck late in the third period...
...Reagans skirmish was less about objective facts than subjective balance--which of Reagan's actions really mattered, which didn't, who gets credit, who gets blame--something historians will joust over for decades. No one with sense expects a mini-series to answer those questions, but if The Reagans' critics--and defenders--didn't invest it with more import than it deserved, there would be no advantage to be gained. Truth be told, little real damage can be done by a sensationalized mini-series or a network's cowardly cave-in. But opportunistic partisans have something in common with opportunistic...
...Reagans skirmish was less about objective facts than subjective balance - which of Reagan's actions really mattered, which didn't, who gets credit, who gets blame - something historians will joust over for decades. No one with sense expects a mini-series to answer those questions, but if The Reagans' critics - and defenders - didn't invest it with more import than it deserved, there would be no advantage to be gained. Truth be told, little real damage can be done by a sensationalized mini-series or a network's cowardly cave-in. But opportunistic partisans have something in common with opportunistic...
...ripped out his matted tresses with their bare hands. Khumalo and two other protesters were then blindfolded and driven 20 km out of town, beaten again and dumped in the bush. "They were saying, 'What you chaps started is war,'" Khumalo says. Khumalo's ordeal is just one skirmish in President Robert Mugabe's long, bloody war on dissent. Over the past six weeks, Mugabe's ruling Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front party (ZANU-PF) has closed the country's only independent daily newspaper and stepped up its violent crackdown on political opponents and dissidents. The next target: nongovernmental...
...Sports News blares updates from the latest baseball skirmish while several rowdy boys shout to each other: “Yes! He’s eating it! He’s getting so big!” They are screaming about Oscar, their pet fish, who lives in the oversized, day-glow fish tank across from the kegerator. Oscar is sufficiently engrossing for the hosts to pull their heads away from the 55” TV, which stands as a monument in their common room...