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...playoffs on a high note.“The team got better as the year went on,” Reese said. “We played our best hockey down the stretch, no doubt about it.”As it entered the postseason, Harvard was able to sustain its momentum for the first time all season, as even the Bulldogs, who had dominated the Crimson to the tune of a combined score of 10-3 in regular-season play, couldn’t stand in Harvard’s way.The Crimson cruised to a two-game sweep, winning...
...putting teams away,” Walsh said. “I thought we had enough pitching to get the job done, but we just weren’t putting enough guys on base.”March snows and April showers certainly didn’t help Harvard sustain any kind of offensive rhythm. The team missed a weekend of games during its strenuous nonconference schedule in Florida, then had several matchups in April postponed or cancelled, including its always anticipated Beanpot game at Fenway Park. “The team was really starting to hit its stride...
...unfavorably with the cost of switching to cars. At the time, a gallon of gasoline cost 18, which today would be close to $4--exactly where some experts think we might be headed. But that was still a bargain compared with the oats and tack and stables needed to sustain what Thomas Edison called "the poorest motor ever built...
...Elmaleh) a not too smart parking boy at a posh restaurant. It's totally preposterous, but everyone is really rather reasonable, patient and lovable in an idiotic situation. Tales like this used to be known as boulevard comedies and, you have to say, Paris has the boulevards to sustain them. Especially when it's springtime and the city sparkles in a fresh light and, sacre bleu, there is always a parking spot available in front of the building the characters need to enter. That, friends, is the truly perfect urban fantasy...
...Running in liberal Massachusetts, Mitt Romney insisted that, despite his personal pro-life beliefs, "abortion should be safe and legal in this country ... I sustain and support that law, and the right of a woman to make that choice." Currently playing on YouTube is an artfully edited video of a debate from his 1994 Senate campaign (an instance in which Romney made a career move his father hadn't, and lost to Ted Kennedy). In it, Romney declares of his pro-choice abortion stand, "You will not see me wavering on that or be a multiple choice." He cites...