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Freshman Chris Bala, showing no signs of the thumb injury suffered Friday, opened the scoring on the power play just 3:47 into the first. He intercepted a Colgate pass at the blueline and trickled a shot through Brenzavich's legs on the breakaway...
...studio system, which had grown from its humble origins among (mostly immigrant Jewish) nickelodeon proprietors into the most powerful industry for the invention and spread of dreams in human history, at least until the advent of TV. Walt Disney invented a little mouse, no larger than a man's thumb, that would become a behemoth...
...think the Dean's rule of thumb on two locked doors is a wise one," McCarthy says. Under Lewis' guideline, student rooms should be protected by two locked doors...
...inject unexpected naturalist details into religious scenes, but once there, they don't rupture the sacred moment; they enhance it. Thus in his Adoration of the Shepherds, circa 1534, one of the shepherds is showing the baby Christ a lamb, whose head the child grabs at, nearly sticking his thumb in its eye, with infantile curiosity. This looks like the most natural of gestures, but it makes a fluent symbolic point as well, since one is expected to read it as Christ embracing the image of his future self-sacrifice, the Paschal Lamb...
...proved beyond a reasonable doubt that she deliberately lied after receiving the immunity. The content of her testimony should in no way be influenced by Starr's threats or promises. It is not Kenneth Starr who will be testifying. It is Monica Lewinsky, and Starr's heavy thumb should not be on the scales of truth...