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Sometimes too hard. In one early-career incident, he tapped and spun the car of dirt-track driver Stick Elliot. The word went out that Stick's mechanic had a gun and was looking for Ironhead. The grease monkey didn't find him, and the racer who would soon be known by a second sobriquet, the Intimidator, drove off to greater glory. Earnhardt was NASCAR's rookie of the year in 1979 and won the season-long title in 1980. Even critics of his aggressive tactics acknowledged that in Earnhardt, NASCAR had as talented a driver as it had ever...
...Harvard up 4-0. Senior center Tara Dunn set up the scoring chance by slipping the puck past the Brown defense towards Catlin streaking down ice. Dreyer raced out of the net and nearly stopped the scoring chance, but Catlin dived and poked the puck past her. Catlin spun into the wall as her shot lit the lamp...
Senior forward Tammy Shewchuk scored the final Harvard goal 34 seconds before game's end. She raced towards the blue line to receive a feed from Ingram, then spun around and walked in on the breakaway to extend the lead...
...Caravan of Death." And, of course, the military is having none of it. They've always relied on the Nuremberg defense - "just following orders." Pinochet had for years maintained that his regime had done nothing to be ashamed of. When the evidence contradicted that, Pinochet's birthday speech was spun by his own family as an acceptance of political responsibility for the actions of the junta. So to hear the general blaming his subordinates for the crimes of which he's been charged won't go down well in the ranks. Indeed, it may sully Pinochet's reputation even among...
...Supply tunes playing in his head. The man loves his reptiles, deeply. Apparently, the feeling is not always mutual. While trying his special brand of crocodile concupiscence last week at Australia Zoo, 60 miles north of Brisbane, a 13-year-old, 176-lb. female saltwater croc named Toolakea spun on Irwin and removed a juicy morsel from his leg. "She did a huge, big, full-bodied shake," says Irwin, "and as she came down, she sensed my skin and just--chomp--sank her teeth into my leg and did a head shake." Multiple stitches later, Irwin gracefully admitted, "The poor...