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...Blue Devils opened up the scoring in the first half with a goal in the 21st minute. Duke got off a shot to the right of the Crimson goal, causing Hahn to dive for the ball but miss the save. Hahn’s miss allowed Mike Grella to sweep in, dribble around him, and then hit the back of the net in the left corner with the ball. Despite the two lapses, Harvard kept the pressure on the Blue Devils and stayed within reach of a result. “We learned a lot from Duke...
...have a choice. I could work on my "ohs," "oos" and "ows," and try to be a bit more slack about consonants. Or I could holiday in Essex, east of London, for total Estuary immersion. But somehow I don't think my Dick Van Dyke Cockney chimney sweep impression would fool anyone for a moment...
...initial trial, Andersen had collapsed and some 28,000 U.S. employees lost their jobs.) Similarly, Charles Keating, one of the biggest nabs in the 1980s savings and loan scandal, saw his conviction reversed nearly five years after going to prison. And after the late-'80s insider-trading Wall Street sweep that, among other things, sent Michael Milken and Ivan Boesky to prison, a number of convictions were overturned, including that of onetime Boesky associate John Mulheren. "When you're more aggressive, you're going to wind up with more losses," says Peter Henning, a law professor at Wayne State University...
Here's a test of celebrity status: Do people show up to watch you sweep a street? BOY GEORGE, the '80s pop icon, was mobbed last week when he performed community service in New York City--his sentence for lying to police about a phony break-in (a cocaine-possession charge was dropped). At first, George balked, but he seemed to get into it during his five days behind the broom and even floated the idea of a benefit for the city's street cleaners. And, yes, people did turn out to see the Karma Chameleon at work...
...looked at Chris’ arm. He had a Jesus fish.Shrimping is a notoriously dangerous job. Shrimpers like Chris and Jacqui gamble their lives each night in the Gulf of Mexico, where they must avoid invisible rocks that rip the bottoms off boats. Lightning fries navigation systems, and storms sweep men off deck. Their only connections to the rest of the world are radios and unreliable cellular phone reception.And the shrimpers themselves are notorious, too. After trying day labor and construction, they often drift to this profession, where there is no boss but the ocean. As we sped farther into...