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...Raimondi’s goal. But just five minutes earlier—at the end of regulation—she had also given Harvard the chance to pull off the last-minute upset. With just one minute left in the third period, the Golden Knights held on to a tenuous one-goal advantage. At that juncture, Stone decided to pull Crimson senior goaltender Ali Boe for the extra skater—giving Harvard the 6-5 advantage down the stretch. With 27 seconds left, the Crimson was “just trying to put as much pressure as possible...
Arroyo's hold on power remains tenuous. The military said last week that 14 junior officers had been briefly detained for allegedly plotting a separate coup. And despite pledges of support by the armed forces, rumors of unrest are a constant source of fear for Arroyo's civilian leadership. In a TV address, she declared that "as commander in chief, I control the situation." In the hurly-burly politics of the Philippines, that remains to be seen...
...worth noting, however, that the response has not been entirely violent: The New York Times described yesterday’s Shiite demonstrations as “mostly peaceful.” Nevertheless, the decidedly chaotic atmosphere has rendered Iraq’s grasp on political stability ever more tenuous. A full-blown civil war looks to be imminent, with President George W. Bush and numerous Iraqi leaders asking for restraint...
...other passages, however, the connections seem a bit more tenuous...
...similar note, we hope the UC does not act on suggestions of holding a campus referendum of student confidence in University President Lawrence H. Summers. Setting aside our opposition to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ (FAS) upcoming vote, conducting a student poll would have a highly tenuous basis. The relationship between Summers and students is often ambiguous and students’ understanding of that relationship far from adequate. These problems are compounded by the fact that any phrasing of the question would have undue influence over the outcome of a binary poll. Finally, we are concerned that...