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...Hartwick the previous night. No matter, as the players overturned a 5-4 deficit with two goals early in the fourth quarter, then bolted the door on defense to hold on for the win. Crimson coach Erik Farrar was quite visibly pumped and was much more excited to talk about that game than he had been the previous night. No surprise there, as this was an exponentially more important contest, and the players performed appropriately...
...while refined Brits hate to talk about money, Harry's secretary announced that the Queen will cover the estimated $40,000 trip out of her own pocket rather than dumping it on the taxpayer. "As it's not a full-fat royal trip," Lowther-Pinkerton said, "the Queen has very graciously offered to foot the bill, which is very kind of her." It's also a good p.r. move. In recent weeks Britain's Parliament has been engulfed in scandal after a national newspaper revealed that scores of parliamentarians used taxpayer money to cover personal expenses - including...
...your Sherpa make it home safely? My friend [and Sherpa] Tundu was with me. When we got above 25,000 ft., he started coughing up a lot of blood and he couldn't talk, so I paid for him to go on a helicopter to Kathmandu to see a specialist. When I get home, I'll e-mail him to see what happened...
...have any obligations at the top of the mountain? We wanted a good photograph of our [Marie Curie cancer charity] flag. But it was a right mess-up. We were getting colder and colder and thinking it'd be safer to leave, but we had to talk into a camera and take a picture of the flag. We were meant to take pictures of seven sponsored items, including the satellite phone, but nobody had enough feeling to do any of that. (Watch TIME's video "Trekking Lebanon's Mountain Trail...
...cliché from the two governments that they are "as close as lips and teeth." Over the years, says Bruce Klingner, a senior analyst at Washington's Heritage Foundation and a former deputy chief for Korea in the CIA's Directorate of Intelligence, the agency's analysis section, "the talk in both capitals about the other has often been pretty scathing." Even during the Cold War, Kim Il Sung, Kim Jong Il's father, would routinely play the Soviet Union and China off each other. In 2002, Kim Jong Il made a well-publicized trip to China, and in Shanghai...