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...capitalizing on its own power play with under a minute to play in the first period. Senior forward John Pelle found sophomore defenseman Alex Biega across the crease, where Biega buried a one-timer for a 1-0 lead. One goal was all Richter would need. Whenever the Engineers threatened, Richter had an answer, from the more mundane—swallowing the puck after a flurry of shots during a Rensselaer 5-on-3—to the spectacular, an across-the-body glove save late in the second period. “It’s a group effort...
...Wales. "It's quite normal in cases of blackmail to ask for a Section 11 order [under the 1981 Contempt of Court Act] to protect the identity of the person who's the alleged victim," says a spokeswoman for the CPS. "The whole point of blackmail is that you threaten somebody to reveal something and if it then comes out in court you are effectively doing what the person was being threatened with...
...scandals over rigged competitions reflect the industry's search for new sources of income as its traditional wellsprings - subsidies and advertising revenues - threaten to run dry. There's another reason for falling standards, says Stuart: the huge popularity of reality TV - cheap to produce and capable of provoking the kind of controversy that still hooks big audiences. Controversy is, of course, hard to control. Channel 4's last run of Celebrity Big Brother sparked riots in India after Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty was subjected to racial abuse from fellow contestants. Earlier this year, The Verdict, a BBC reality show, brought...
Students did no better when asked if they, as physicians, should obey any of three hypothetical orders: to threaten a detainee with psychotropic drugs that would not actually be given; to give detainees a shot of harmless saline solution that they've been led to believe is a lethal injection; to kill a detainee with a genuine lethal injection. More than a quarter of the respondents said they would do the first two but not the third. Six percent said they would do any of the three. The right answer, according to the Geneva conventions, as well as the American...
...what would turn out to be the game-winner just over three minutes into the third. Vaillancourt received a pass from McDonald and charged the net, juking Labonte and depositing the puck in the back of the net to give the Crimson a 4-2 lead.The Martlets continued to threaten and cut the Harvard lead in half when defenseman Jasmine Sheehan caught the defense out of position and buried a rebound.But with just under four minutes remaining in the game, Ryabkina gave Harvard some insurance when she took a pass from McDonald and flicked the puck high over Labonte into...