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...problems that the Crimson faced started before the team even took the field. Harvard was missing its starting keeper, sophomore Kathryn Tylander, who tore her ACL against No. 13 Syracuse on March 16. Junior Kristin Demorest guarded the net and made seven saves...
...mornings before, thinking about the Philadelphia cheesesteak he would have for lunch, when a roadside bomb exploded in front of his vehicle. The massive blast ripped through the Humvee, throwing Chilles to the floor. "It was like a plank hit me across the back," he says. The shrapnel tore two holes in his lower back and ripped through his abdomen, narrowly missing his vital organs - a "miracle shot," says Chilles. Two years have passed since U.S.-led coalition forces stormed into Iraq and ousted Saddam Hussein. Since then, the Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, the largest American military hospital outside...
...crutch that seemed to help at first ended up preventing Zailckas from standing on her own two feet. Smashed is the lonely history of how alcohol tore her life apart, in ways that anyone who has unwittingly hurt themselves or others can begin to comprehend. “In the end,” Zailckas writes, “I quit drinking because I didn’t want to waste any more time picking up the pieces. I decided smashed, when it’s used as a synonym for drunk, is a self-fulfilling prophecy...
Rather than retreat to protect the backcourt against a Dartmouth squad that liked to run, McCaffery tore to the glass and ripped down her own offensive rebound amidst a crowd of hands vying for the ball. Before a Dartmouth defender could react to her inside position, McCaffery spun neatly toward the basket and dropped in a layup off the glass...
...sufferings more fully than in the picture of David. Maybe Goliath has been converted here into a symbol of the artist's martyrdom. Or maybe this is the face of Caravaggio's subordination to a triumphant younger lover. Either way, can anybody refuse this man who tore himself to pieces...