Word: upset
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...Raimondi, junior Katie Johnston, and freshman Sarah Wilson finished with a combined eight points in Sunday’s 4-3 win over Brown. The day before, junior second-liners Liza Solley and Jennifer Sifers notched all three of the team’s goals in a stunning semifinal upset of St. Lawrence. The goaltending matchup is also a dandy. Senior netminder Ali Boe, in recent weeks, has displayed an impressive stubbornness to let her career come to a close. Excluding the frenetic first period against the Bears, Boe has allowed a mere four goals in her last 323 minutes...
...this season. And on its longest win streak of 2006, the Harvard men’s volleyball team made sure it stayed that way, defeating the Pioneers 3-0 (30-24, 30-24, 30-28) last night at the Pitt Center in Fairfield, Conn. Riding the momentum from an upset of then-undefeated East Stroudsburg on Saturday, the Crimson had little trouble getting past a struggling Sacred Heart squad. Harvard posted 50 kills on .307 hitting, outslugging the Pioneers to pick up its fifth straight victory. “We capitalized on their errors,” junior setter Dave...
...Between swabbing a strep-ridden throat and assessing a jaundiced newborn, I was asked by my nurse how to counsel a parent who was upset by the sleeping habits of her six year old. For the last week, the child had refused to go to bed without his mom sleeping next to him and often awoke during the night, screaming for his mother to " kill it! " No amount of bribes had worked, and his lack of sleeping was affecting his days in kindergarten. He refused to go outside for recess and was withdrawn from his peers. After prescribing penicillin...
...might have our most introspective and colorful discoveries in this limbo. Each of the dreamers’ tales unfolds in grand yet disquieting terms. “Duck Season” discusses youth with a grave tone usually reserved for death, ultimately disturbing many comforting preconceptions about childhood. Easily upset type-As can still find reassurance in the juvenile sensibilities the characters employ to dismiss their problems. Flama destroys the objects his parents covet with a B. B. gun, Ulises gets high to the strings of Beethoven and quits his job amidst a hallucination, and Moko works out his romantic...
...stark contradiction between two senior Army officers - Col. Pappas and Maj. Gen. Miller - has upset lawmakers on Capitol Hill. On Tuesday, Sen. John Warner, the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, announced at a hearing that he expected to have Maj. Gen. Miller testify before his panel at an unspecified date. Last month, Sen. Lindsey Graham, a Republican from South Carolina who also sits on the committee, made an even more pointed comment, saying, "Shame on us if we allow a story to go forward that is not true and the... dog handlers are paying the price...