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...Gina Kingsbury and had scored 41 goals on the season. In the final few minutes of play, Harvard put an emphatic stamp on the night when Ruggiero was called for a five-minute misconduct penalty for checking Kingsbury from behind. As Ruggiero left the ice and headed into the tunnel early because of the penalty, the fans in attendance rose to their feet and applauded the team’s leader for her efforts over the last two nights—including her goal which gave the Crimson the victory the night before...
...instance, or in “being a style icon.” We throw ourselves into a few activities with the sort of self-immolating vigor that I bring to dancing to “Graceland.” Academia itself encourages a sort of tunnel vision; incapable of tackling entire movements or schools of thought, we write papers and theses on absurdly narrow topics. In his short story “The Christian Roommates,” set at Harvard in the fifties, John Updike writes of the beginning of second semester: “Conversations...
...present structure, bringing the reader from 18th-century Boston to modern day chapter by chapter, chronicling six generations on their hunt for the missing silver. The book ends with an appropriately cinematic touch—Fallon blowing a hole into the side of a T subway tunnel to reveal a cache of hidden silver. “I thought, as I still do, as a screenwriter,” says Martin. “And it managed to succeed in a way first novels aren’t supposed...
...worse than that. A blast ripped through the second car of a packed train at the height of the morning rush hour. Within minutes, at least 39 people were dead and 134 were injured. Wreckage and human remains were spread along 164 ft. of the tunnel. "We're taking out the dead, or what's left of them," said a rescue worker. "You don't want to know what happened to them...
...Without a doubt, the Channel Tunnel would not have been built if we had known about these problems...