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...Hobey Baker finalist posted a.947 save percentage and was second in the country with a 1.63 GAA, in large part thanks to six shutouts. The six whitewashes broke the Crimson single-season mark and also helped Grumet-Morris surpass the career shutout tally with 11 blankings over four years, just two of the 13 records with which Grumet-Morris will graduate...
...competitions as the most sophisticated, integrated, attractive and all-around "neat-o" handheld multimedia device on the market. Though currently best used for games and movies, with the addition of few amenities - a better music interface, text messaging and a web browser, to name a few - it could even surpass the iPod as the must-have, status symbol gadget for adults...
...image. Behind the tourists is a massive pile of debris, a jarring reminder of the tragic tsunami that swept through South Asia—and tens of thousands of lives—on Dec. 26. In the aftershock of this cataclysmic disaster, with a death toll expected to surpass 150,000 and an expected cost surely to be counted in the billions of dollars, two undeterred tourists imbibe on the beach, obviously more keen on finishing their vacation than on lending a much-needed helping hand to the massive relief effort. Their senseless indifference to this terrible loss...
...memory has evoked the greatest outpouring of charity. "Just as we see the power of nature to destroy, we have seen the power of human compassion to build," said Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown. The pledges coming in to the U.N. for tsunami relief already surpass all the relief money received in 2004 for the top 20 disasters combined. The politics of pity is never pure, so there was a kind of global competition in generosity, especially after the U.S. increased an early pledge of aid tenfold, to $350 million. Japan offered $500 million, Germany topped that...
Cambridge city councilors surpass themselves whenever they try to squeeze more money out of Harvard. Only five years ago, Cambridge renegotiated its ten-year payment in lieu of taxes (PILOT) agreement with Harvard. Now Cambridge’s politicos have smelt the opportunity for politically salutary Harvard-bashing...