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...game in the first half was aided by Brown’s 2-3 zone defense, which was designed to collapse upon the interior to prevent captain Matt Stehle and junior center Brian Cusworth from hurting the smaller Bears inside. While the zone didn’t slow down Stehle, who finished with 17 points on 6-of-8 shooting, it allowed Goffredo to find open spots on the perimeter and wait for the dish from inside. “One of the reasons you go to zone is to stop the inside play,” Goffredo said...
...table for an interesting finish for us,” said Harvard head coach Ted Donato ’91. “We really have to step it up a notch.”UNION 2, HARVARD 1Battling hard through the first two periods of a slow, physical game, the Crimson entered the final frame expecting to make up the one-goal difference it found itself facing.But Union goaltender Kris Mayotte and his defensemen had other ideas.Mayotte made eight saves in the third period, including a terrific save on freshman blueliner Jack Christian with twelve minutes left...
Coretta Scott King, the widow of civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr., died in her sleep early Tuesday morning at the age of 78. She had worked tirelessly after her husband's death in 1968 to carry on his legacy and only recently began to slow down her efforts. Having suffered a stroke in August 2005, King made a surprising appearance at a children's program in mid-January during events surrounding the annual commemoration of King's birthday. Passive and regal in a wheelchair, King did not speak but welcomed a line of children to her side...
Housman and Goffredo's two-man game in the first half was aided by Brown's 2-3 zone defense, which was designed to collapse upon the interior to prevent captain Matt Stehle and junior center Brian Cusworth from hurting the smaller Bears inside. While the zone didn't slow down Stehle, who finished with 17 points on 6-of-8 shooting, it allowed Goffredo to find open spots on the perimeter and wait for the dish from inside...
...GLANCE AT THE ECONOMY OF A SMALL Mexican town like Tuxpan makes it clear why undocumented workers continue to head north. Tuxpan's heyday was in the 1950s and '60s, when it gained fame throughout Mexico for its gladiolus. But overproduction slowly poisoned the soil, leaving Tuxpan in a slow decline. In the past decade, flowers have made a comeback, but the salary for working in the greenhouses or out in the field still averages only $10 a day. At the same time, the cost of living is comparatively high in Tuxpan. As in much of small-town Mexico...