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With co-captain Cori Bassett in the box for checking, New Hampshire set up on its nation-leading extra-man unit. Though the Wildcats peppered Kessler with five shots, the netminder held up to the pressure...
Harvard’s penalty-kill unit stepped up once again, and the game headed into extra time...
...another disappointment for the Harvard power-play unit, which has scored just two extra-man goals in seven games—good for just 27th in the nation...
...court-martial - essentially a military trial - is the oldest system of justice in the United States, predating even the Constitution and Declaration of Independence. The roots of military law stretch back to ancient Rome, where it was adopted to enforce discipline within the ranks, especially among mercenaries. In 1775, the Continental Congress met at the outbreak of the Revolutionary War and adopted the Articles of War based on Britain's military code. The system was not heavily used in World War I, but in World War II some 2 million people were court-martialed for varying offenses, resulting...
...teenager, Leonor Marquez led a fleet-footed unit of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN) guerrilla fighters through the steep mountain passes of Perkin, El Salvador. "We were young and fast," Marquez, now 37, remembers. She and her comrades, who were known as "Las Samuelitas", were a fierce group of insurgents who might have been giddy junior high girls had they not been in El Salvador in the 1980s...