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...scoring spurt came from unlikely sources in sophomore Jamin Kerner, freshman Graham Morrell and senior Geordie Hyland, who in total have amassed only two career goals. But after averaging only 2.6 goals a game and posting a dismal 10-percent power-play success rate last season, Harvard was happy just to see the lamp light...
Last Friday, Harvard had to swallow a heartache sandwich served by William & Mary. The meat of the loss--a three-goal spurt by the Tribe--was placed between two solid Harvard scoring efforts...
Forbes' wooing of religious conservatives is, above all, a reaction to the failure of his last campaign. After an early spurt in last year's Republican primaries, Forbes was forced out of the race in part because he was indifferent to the party's powerful Christian Coalition wing. At one point, remembered by campaign chairman Malcolm Wallop as "that big catastrophe in Iowa," Forbes took off after the organization for falsely painting him as pro-abortion rights. "The Christian Coalition does not speak for most Christians," he said...
...fact no one knows how the expansion will affect Europe or the alliance, how much it will cost or how many years or decades the growth spurt, and the conflicts that come with it, will last. Meanwhile, each time new members are taken in, new dividing lines will be drawn across the Continent. Russia, one of the two states that can blow up the world, will be on the other side of those lines...
...inflation currently remains low and potentially inflationary economic growth is expected to slow. For now, Wall Street seems to be betting that the Fed will not raise rates, concluding as many economists have suggested that US is in for a mild slowdown after an unexpectedly rapid first quarter growth spurt...