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...focus on in the upcoming days. “We need to score some goals,” Caples said. “No shot is a bad shot at this point. You just have to keep firing away.” Focusing on goal production, Harvard will draw upon both new and old players in the effort. With several returning players and seven freshmen added to the roster, the team and the coach are optimistic about the season. “Our freshmen are going to be pretty key to our success this year.” Berglund said...
...back by a half hour, starting in the third week of September. The government expects the measure to give Venezuelans a more equitable distribution of sunlight and, in the words of science and technology minister Hector Navarro, help "organize the country and social life in a more rational manner." Upon hearing the proclamation, a U.S. newspaper suggested recent headlines made the Caracas press read like The Onion, and drew comparisons between Venezuela and Woody Allen's film Bananas. In that movie, Allen's revolutionary hero-turned-president declares that from now on his people must change their underwear every half...
...sure. You know, we're kind of looked upon as the go-to guys on the team. We're a very, very intricate part of the offense; we're expected to put points on the board. I don't think I'm any different than any of the other great receivers that have demanded the ball or seemed a little high maintenance themselves...
...with so much of Shakespeare's life, there is little primary source material to back up the biographers' narratives), 26-year-old Anne coaxed 18-year-old William into a careless roll in the hay. Her pregnancy forced their marriage and young Will fled the misery of Stratford-upon-Avon for London, where he promptly became the world's greatest playwright. Citing the omission of Anne's name from his will, academics have happily spun tales that she mothered a bastard, had affairs with her brothers-in-law and even seduced a Puritan preacher...
...Eunuch, writes that envy and fear have driven the naysayers: "The possibility that a wife might have been closer to their idol than they could ever be, understood him better than they ever could, could not be entertained." This contentious tone colors much of her discussion. Greer argues that upon marriage Anne had not passed "her sell-by date" - the average Elizabethan woman married at 27 - and that as a landholder she could gain little by seducing a "penniless teenage boy, with nothing to his name but a grammar school education." Religious mores render the femme fatale interpretation even more...