Word: slugfest
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...visit to the Bright Hockey Center. The Crimson got even with a last-minute equalizer and a last-second game-winner, both by senior Jennifer Raimondi, on the road in Potsdam, N.Y. to steal a 3-2 victory last Saturday. Then came this weekend’s three-game slugfest. Harvard nipped the Golden Knights in a 1-0 win Friday night, but fell, 2-1, on a sudden-death overtime tally on Saturday. The series of hard-fought, closely-contested clashes culminated with yesterday’s double-OT thriller. “I was starting to think...
It’s been a long, ugly December for the Harvard women’s basketball team, and it got even uglier in a low-scoring slugfest against Marist on Saturday. The Crimson netted just 39 points in its sixth consecutive loss, a 44-39 defeat to the Red Foxes in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. Freshman guard Emily Tay helped Harvard (2-7) fight back from a 12-point second half deficit to claim a two-point lead with 3:49 remaining, but the Crimson scored just two points in the final four minutes and surrendered yet another road game late...
...Thanksgiving holiday to lower the political temperature before politicians return to the capital. After last week's tumult and partisan drama on Capitol Hill, Bush might be thankful that the lawmakers' November recess has arrived like the clang of the bell mercifully terminating a middle round in a heavyweight slugfest. Instead of irate, uppercutting critics, awaiting him in Washington are a stack of budget bills primped for his pen and a National Turkey urgently seeking presidential pardon. He leaves Tuesday to celebrate the holiday at his home in Crawford...
Behind a 15-hit barrage, the Crimson topped Lynn (21-12) in a slugfest in Boca Raton last Monday...
That was the case in 1944, when F.D.R. fought a very tough re-election campaign. It was equally the case in 1980, when the Reagan-Carter slugfest took place in the shadow of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. And at some point, especially in foreign policy, when the stakes are invested so heavily in the man in the Oval Office, you have to give the winner a chance, a fresh start, a honeymoon to do what he thinks is in the best interests of the country...