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Junior defenseman Noah Welch gained possession after a clearing attempt bounced off a Brown skate and back toward the slot. Welch worked it left, and feathered a cross-ice pass to the crashing Kolarik...
Harvard’s first power play of the day, late in the first period, was characterized by uncertain passing and produced no shots on net. It began with Johnson losing control as he tried to work into the slot, and ended with senior defenseman Dave McCulloch fanning at the point. In between, Pettit fired over the cage when he had an open look and Cavanagh had his bid from the right circle blocked...
With Butler’s return, senior Chris Raftery will return to free safety from the cornerback slot he slid over to fill last weekend...
Perhaps the best example of the Beeb's growing influence in the U.S. is NBC's version of the BBC hit Coupling, which premiered this fall. NBC hoped its knock-off would be the next Friends, lavished it with publicity and ran it on a premium Thursday-night time slot. Viewers merely shrugged, while critics savaged it. Comparing it to the British version, which airs on BBCA, the New York Times wrote, "Coupling is the Milli Vanilli of network television: the sitcom equivalent of lip-synching someone else's song." Yet BBC America is capitalizing. Thanks to the notoriety...
...into a mini-Vegas with shopping, live entertainment and, most important, "racinos," or racetrack casinos, that fatten purses and improve race quality. But MEC has met an old problem--the hostile statehouse. Racinos are legal in just seven states, and other industries, like hotels, won't let lawmakers legislate slots at tracks at their expense. "Why save racing?" asks Robert Goodman, a professor at Hampshire College in Amherst, Mass., and the author of The Luck Business. "The car companies are struggling--does that mean we should put slot machines in showrooms...