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...Once again, guys were blocking shots when they needed to, [playing] in the right position, getting the puck all the way down the ice,” Taylor said. “[The penalty kill] was a big factor tonight.”While Taylor’s shorthanded strike represented the obvious special-teams highlight of the evening, the penalty kill performed admirably on every Big Red power-play opportunity. Each Cornell man-advantage began with Harvard dumping the puck into the Big Red zone, and the Crimson was even able to generate some shorthanded opportunities before Taylor?...
...minutes of play, but neither the Crimson nor Cornell could capitalize.But it was another penalty, this one on the Big Red’s Amber Moore, that led to Harvard’s second goal of the night.The Crimson waited until the last seconds of the power play to strike. Freshman Liza Ryabkina put the puck in play in front of the net from the blue line, and it was Cahow who was able to bank a shot off the post into the net.Ryabkina and junior Kati Vaughn nabbed assists on the play.Now up 2-0, Harvard was forced...
...classic and contemporary productions, including Giselle, Swan Lake and Spartacus. In 1995 she took on another role when her husband, Bolshoi artistic director Yuri Grigorovich, quit amid a dispute with management over plans for his replacement. Bessmertnova and her fellow dancers refused to perform for a night. The historic strike caused the company's first cancellation in more than two centuries. She was 66 and reportedly had kidney trouble...
When disasters strike, you won't find Becky Myton handing out cans of sardines. Although the little fish pack a protein wallop, "if you give out cans of sardines and people don't like them, you're just not doing them a favor," says Myton, an emergency coordinator for the Atlanta-based aid organization CARE. "It works much better when you evaluate people's needs and then meet them...
...each other up over Pakistan. The central government's inability to control al-Qaeda in its northwestern tribal territories, and concerns over Islamabad's nuclear arsenal, make handling relations with the country a particularly tricky problem. Hence the tumult over Barack Obama's fairly mainstream assertion that he would strike "high-value" terror targets in Pakistan if the leadership there could not. The confusion over when and whether to intervene across sovereign borders shows how little light has been shed on America's policy for responding to weak-state threats during the campaign...