Word: stupidities
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Discipline: C-. The sole problem with the penalty kill unit is that it is pretty winded by now, having had to kill a surplus of stupid penalties. Time and time again, Tomassoni has justly criticized his players' lack of discipline in crucial moment--as the RPI loss showed most dramatically, a couple of foolish lapses of concentration can undo the good minutes of effort surrounding them...
...Larkin at the end of the Vermont game (costing the Crimson a chance at a game-winning power-play opportunity) may prove to be the crucial blow in the battle for discipline--if Tomassoni's benching of Martins fails to illustrate to his players the importance of not taking stupid penalties, it's hard to imagine what could. No matter what, Tomassoni's point that the truly great teams don't break down like that is well-taken. College hockey's upper echelon is reserved for teams that can control themselves emotionally and not be irritated by the taunts...
...college science books when he was eight -- skills, he says, that "did not endear me to the other schoolchildren of Oklahoma." He was also a stutterer, which made him a target of taunts. But that didn't bother him, he says, "because I considered everybody else in the world stupid...
...British scientist cut him off. "What a stupid thing to say," he chided. "This is a serious scientific session." Anderson was humiliated, but as he slunk out after the session, John Edsall came by. "Interesting idea," he said, and walked away...
...within the White House leans toward dynamic inaction, waiting for the commission's report in May to test the political waters on paring entitlements. But that would still leave unresolved a ticklish problem: Where would the savings from entitlement reform go? Congress is awash with it's-the-deficit-stupid fervor, while the Administration covets new money to pay for the President's still moribund investment agenda. "If this is a strategy to free up a little more money for the White House to spend," Kerrey says, "I'm not interested in doing...