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Junior forward Steve Rolecek’s first goal halfway through the second period—the third of the contest—seemingly crippled Quinnipiac’s starting goalie, Bud Fisher, and opened the floodgates for a torrent of Crimson goals. The Bobcats twice replaced their goalie throughout the course of the game, but each switch was to little avail—none could provide the solid defensive backup Quinnipiac’s offense so desperately needed...
...user “kaboom73” uploaded the 125-megabyte file—which contained the site administrator’s secure user name and password, a back-up of the site’s server, site databases, and contact databases—to the torrent site Pirate Bay on Saturday...
...from Dhané's financial crisis that stems from the repossession of his livestock - floated as security for a bad loan - to the elemental metaphors of wood, fire and water that Chettri uses to define his characters. Strapped with debt, Dhané's "thoughts raced by like a powerful torrent"; Maina, his wife, bemoans the "log that fate had flung at them" after learning that Jhuma, the sister, has been raped. The swaggering soldier, who blinded Jhuma with his khakis, foreign words and hollow marriage proposal before committing the outrage, is a "blazing flame...
...Fred Thompson, he didn't show all that much enthusiasm for the job during his campaign swings through Iowa. But when he got to South Carolina last week, he released all the pent-up energy in an unprompted torrent of negative attacks on Huckabee. Then on Thursday, his campaign staff came to the grounds of the statehouse, where they offered reporters cigars (made in Nicaragua) to illustrate an accompanying press release that noted Huckabee had recently backed off his earlier support for a federal smoking...
...Saturday night at the Bright Hockey Center, the Harvard men’s hockey team discovered that it takes more than hard skating and a torrent of shots on goal to defeat No. 11 Clarkson.The Crimson (6-9-3, 5-6-2 ECAC) lost, 4-2, to the Golden Knights (12-7-1, 7-3-0), extending its winless streak to nine games.Despite outshooting Clarkson, 33-28, for the game and generating high-quality scoring opportunities, Harvard never held the lead but displayed fortitude by twice rallying to tie the score.But in the critical third period, Clarkson outshot Harvard...