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That is only one example of a time when Moore wanted the puck and converted in crunch time. Multiple other examples of his clutch performance can be drawn from the end of this past season, when Moore went on a tear, scoring 28 goals over his last 12 games. That was the most points of any player in college hockey over that stretch, earned Moore All-American acknowledgement and confirmed what many folks in the bleachers at Bright had said all along—Dominic Moore is the best all-around hockey player in the East...
...knows I feel panicked when I’m alone in crowded rooms.) And 24 hours and as many pages before the due date of my thesis, it became almost meditative. “Bebé, bebé, bebé,” he whispered as he stroked my tear-stained cheeks with the back of his hand...
...entrance to the headquarters of the Congress of South African Trade Unions. The University of California at Berkeley graduate student, already nervous about doing research on the South African labor movement under the noses of the oppressive apartheid regime, turned the corner and watched through a fog of tear gas as police arrested and beat the workers inside. She, too, was almost apprehended before the officers relented at the behest of a lawyer for the labor movement. As she puts it, her nearly disastrous encounter with the South African authorities is “a great fieldwork story...
...surprisingly, the fitness boom among older adults has led to a spike in sports injuries. Exercise newbies may suffer from flare-ups of old injuries or normal age-related wear and tear of tendons and joints. Overenthusiasm is another problem. "They make the mistake of upping the ante too far and too fast, doubling the time or the mileage," says Dr. Doug McKeag, director of sports medicine at Indiana University. A few minutes of warm-up and cool down, instruction from a certified trainer and appropriate safety gear can help...
...Regarding issues on which reasonable people could disagree, he seemed to revel in the chance to conduct debates back and forth with us, and though he rarely yielded his position, he was willing to acknowledge the strength of opposing viewpoints. Interacting with Lewis sometimes made us want to tear our hair out, but the number and quality of our exchanges helped our work immensely. Over his eight years as dean, Lewis was a worthy adversary for The Crimson, and perhaps the headline in that March editorial reflects the grudging respect that the paper has come to have...