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...first, Suurkask struck again, this time on the Dartmouth power play. Shortly after Shewchuk received a penalty for high-sticking, Suurkask stole the puck and flew down the ice on a shorthanded breakaway. Facing Freguson one-on-one, Suurkask rifled one over the upper right shoulder of Ferguson to give Harvard the 2-0 advantage after one period...
...Yale defense that stole the show, limiting Columbia tailback Jonathan Reese to 86 yards, his lowest output of the season. With the running game nullified, the Bulldog secondary then took advantage, especially senior safety Ryan LoProto...
...presidency after ballots were thrown out in a state run by your brother. But what is everybody else's hurry? It will be hard enough for anyone to govern without a rush to judgment setting off a cottage industry of the grassy-knoll variety. Do we want Who Stole Florida? on the shelf alongside Who Shot JFK? Yet when Gore's deputies threatened litigation, Bush mouthpiece Karen Hughes warned that this would be unhealthy for the country. "That's not the way we do things in America," she huffed. Since when? Suing one another is all we do in America...
...another very close election, John F. Kennedy carried Illinois by only 9,000 votes. Given the skill of the Chicago Democratic machine in extracting votes from vacant lots and graveyards, the myth has arisen that Mayor Richard Daley stole the election from Richard Nixon. In fact, if Nixon had carried Illinois, Kennedy would still have won, 276 to 246, in the electoral college...
...Geisel says she gave the go-ahead for the Grinch movie because the material "had been tried and tested for decades on television," but she left nothing to chance. In July 1998, Geisel's agents notified producers by letter that "How the Grinch Stole Christmas!" was up for auction. In order to pitch their ideas to Geisel, the suitors ultimately had to be willing to pay $5 million for the material and hand over 4 percent of the box-office gross, 50 percent of the merchandising revenue and music-related material, and 70 percent of the income from book...