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...unfazed by the length of the game was B.C. goalie Molly Shaus, who racked up an absurd 73 saves. “It’s the best feeling in the world,” she said.The game finally came to a conclusion when Stack stung the Crimson again, this time with an assist, as she fed teammate Anna McDonald for the game-winner 14:13 into the third and final overtime.“It was just a matter of time,” Mutch said.Harvard will miss the Beanpot finals for the first time in eight years...
...handsome collection called The Spirit Archives, now up to its 22nd volume - is to see Eisner shift within genres and tones. One week's story might be a melodrama, the next a comedy, the third a parable. But beyond the variety of stories was a striking visual consistency: the tone was bold, dark and mature - a grownup vision, compared to the adolescent world-view of the standard superhero strip. To quote Feiffer: "Will Eisner was an early master of the German expressionist approach in comic books - the Fritz Lang school. ?Muss 'Em Up' was full of dark shadows, creepy angle...
...Williams, 25, her third Australian Open championship and eighth Grand Slam event, in a stunning display of force that promises to reinvigorate the women's tour; in a definitive rout of No. 1--ranked Maria Sharapova in straight sets; after injuries and fashion pursuits had sidelined her for more than a year; in Melbourne. Motivated, she said, by the memory of her murdered older half sister Yetunde--whose name she invoked after every net change--Williams became the lowest-ranked woman to win a Grand Slam singles trophy in 29 years and jumped in the world rankings, from...
...long-standing expertise in marketmaking and English's position as one of Europe's primary languages, there are now more euros traded for dollars, pounds and yen each day in London than in the euro-zone countries combined. The City's share of the world's foreign-exchange trading has risen to a third, more than any other city. But London's dominance of Europe doesn't end with currencies. According to the Centre for Economics and Business Research (cebr), a London-based consultancy, the U.K. accounted for 35% of the E.U.'s total institutional financial service business...
...contractor. In another example of undocumented spending, diplomats familiar with the project say that $900,000 had been paid indirectly to officials in Honduras as bribes to win approval to ship supplies through that country. Explained one official: "You can't fight these kinds of wars in the Third World without key people getting greased...