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...three have skated together since last year, and with Mandes’ blistering speed, Maki’s physical presence and Du’s doggedness in the center, the trio has come up with the game-winning play more than once...
...wanted to play an up-tempo game, and I think we did that,” the Colgate coach said. “We were able to match their speed...
...while that Crimson speed appeared just a step behind, perhaps rusty after a 15-day layoff, the Raiders drew more than enough inspiration from its embarrassing, 5-1 loss to the Northeastern Huskies just the weekend before...
...struggled with depression and appeared more comfortable around men than women. But Tripp, who worked with Alfred Kinsey in the 1940s and died in 2003 two weeks after turning in his manuscript, sniffs out sexuality in the most innocuous exchanges, such as an 1841 letter from Lincoln to Speed after the latter moved to Kentucky. "It begins without a single personal item," Tripp recounts, "but drones on in a 1,575-word account of a local murder trial. Hard to find anything less personal than that, yet it is precisely this kind of impersonal recounting of some irrelevant...
...assembling his data, Tripp is more persuasive in highlighting the rigidity of modern attitudes toward male friendships than in proving anything about Lincoln's sexuality. Suggestions that Lincoln was gay have existed for years. In his 1926 biography, the poet Carl Sandburg wrote that the President and Speed possessed "a streak of lavender and spots soft as May violets"--a lyrical though curious phrase that seems to suggest something unmasculine...