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...sustained pressure—we were kind of cycling it down in their zone—and we had a bunch of chances to make it 4-2 there, which would have put the game away.” But just as Daigneau’s second-period save swung the momentum in Harvard’s favor, the Big Red’s third-period timeout swung it right back around. With just over five minutes left to play, Harvard forwards Mike Taylor and Kevin Du fought along the right boards to clear the puck. They were close?...
Unlike his allies Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini, Francisco Franco survived World War II, retaining his dictatorial grip on Spain for another 30 years. Even when he died, he avoided the fate of his fellow despots. Hitler's body was likely incinerated outside his bunker; Mussolini's corpse swung from a gas-station awning in Milan; but Franco still lies in a grand tomb funded and carefully maintained by the country he subjugated. On Sunday, the 30th anniversary of his death, several thousand Franco supporters will make their annual journey to the Valley of the Fallen, some 50 km northwest...
Then there's the course itself. Stepping up to the first tee, I could hear my father's voice: Keep your eyes on the ball, slow down your upswing, swivel your hips. I could almost hear his sigh of exasperation. Instead I swung hard, too hard, and completely missed. I tried again, and this time skulled it, sending the ball ricocheting off a few boulders before it disappeared. With admirable stoicism, Afzal dispatched two caddies to find his precious ball in the dry scrub. "Maybe you try putting," he said...
...introduce greater transparency in government; he and his political party, the United Malays National Organization (UMNO), won a landslide victory. Abdullah quickly got to work, postponing or scaling back several of the huge?and hugely expensive?infrastructure projects that Mahathir favored. The government's previously somnolent Anti-Corruption Agency swung into action, launching a series of prosecutions of politicians and businessmen. And a special commission was established to look into corruption in the police force. In recent months, however, prosecutions against corruption have dried up, and the police commission's recommendations have yet to be implemented. "Abdullah has appeared strangely...
Ricky Gervais’s “The Office” is one of the funniest and most brilliant programs ever to grace a television screen. And, as with the British series “Coupling,” NBC swung and missed with the American version. With all due respect to Steve Carell, who is very funny in almost everything he does, the U.S. “Office” just isn’t very funny. The whole experience is like watching a version of “Da Ali G Show” starring James Rebhorn...