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...Homeland isn’t really an American word,” the former Reagan advisor opined in The Wall Street Journal, “It has a vaguely Teutonic ring--Ve must help ze Fuehrer protect ze Homeland!” Noonan seems to have struck the source of the visceral unease that the term provokes. “Homeland Security” resembles a call for devotion to safeguarding some German “fatherland” or Soviet “motherland.”The term seems to achieve such an effect from a combination...
...accelerated to the top of her game very quickly.”The play also marked an important personal milestone for Brine, as the assist was the 100th point of her collegiate career. Up until Buesser’s goal, however, the game was a back-and-forth affair.Princeton struck first, capitalizing on a power play opportunity eight minutes into the game. Tiger Brittany Salmon got the puck past Crimson sophomore goalie Christina Kessler to give Princeton the 1-0 advantage.But Harvard didn’t stay behind for long. At 11:48 in the first, a shot...
...lead.“She was the obvious choice,” Cahow said. “It was a hands-down decision for our coaching staff. It was a great move and a clutch goal.”In the first half of the second period, the Crimson struck again on a strong effort by junior Sarah Wilson. Wilson rushed the net and fired a shot, which Miller deflected. After hustling to recover her own rebound and passing the puck to junior Kati Vaughn, Vaughn passed back to Wilson—now inside the right circle?...
...York Mets' self-appointed commentator. From 1964 to 1981, the "Sign Man of Shea Stadium"--whom the Mets flew to the 1973 World Series for good luck--sat in the stands and held up hundreds of prepared block-lettered placards to tweak (JOSE CAN YOU SEE? when Jose Cardenal struck out) or praise (IT'S ALIVE! when a weak player got a hit). "I called them the way I saw them," he said...
...there might just be something special about Leah. Breuer had earlier observed Leah (named inexactly after Princess Leia of Star Wars) using a crude tool - another first - testing out the depth of a pond with a long stick, rather than simply diving in. The very humanness of her experimentation struck him. "That observation was so interesting," says Breuer. "Very often they find solutions to problems in the same way as you or I would...