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Corriero put the team on her back—or better yet, her stick—for 60 minutes, seeming to respond single-handedly to each stubborn Lakers go-ahead score in a scrum at the goal mouth with a goal of her own. To her advantage was Mercyhurst’s rugged, at times violent, checking, which put Corriero and the squad’s top power-play unit on the ice with several good chances to score...
Dallaire insisted on staying behind, and for the next three months he watched as the body count rose higher and higher. His stubborn force is credited with saving thousands, but the genocide continued until July, when the RPF finally took control of the capital from...
...night. A new party without a big attraction could not hope to compete with the established activities already planned by student groups, particularly since the Afterparty excluded prefrosh. Planning a big UC event on Prefrosh Weekend also meant that many alternative rain venues were unavailable. While organizers’ stubborn optimism about the Afterparty’s success “rain or shine” was appreciated, if the UC is going to allocate more than many Americans earn in a year for three hours of live music and beer, in the future it needs to have workable contingency...
...Toyota sold just 107,000 Tundras in the U.S. last year, while Ford sold 916,000 F-Series trucks. Although Nissan and Honda have joined Toyota in the truck market, heavy investment has made Detroit's pickups more competitive than its cars. And Detroit can still count on the stubborn-guy factor. "I'd consider driving a Chevy, but that'd be about as far as I go," says Don Strumberger, 62, a lifelong Ford man from Dubuque, Iowa. A GM spokeswoman says 94% of folks who buy a GM-manufactured Silverado purchase another GM truck...
...When the G.O.P. crushed former minority leader Tom Daschle's bid for re-election, the Republicans thought they had broken the back of the Democratic resistance. But as Klein pointed out, the soft-spoken and creatively stubborn Reid has marshaled his troops much as Robert E. Lee did and is winning on the battlegrounds of his choosing. It remains to be seen whether, like Lee, Reid will eventually fall or Americans will realize that control of all three branches of government by a single party leads to extremism. Del Hindle High Ridge, Missouri...