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...shots taken over the course of nearly seven minutes with the man-advantage. On defense, the Crimson struggled to clear the puck and allowed the Raiders to rifle three shots past rookie goalie Christina Kessler. Kessler made 15 saves in the game, while her counterpart, Colgate senior Brook Wheeler, recorded 31 stops on the school’s senior day to thwart a Crimson offense that outshot the Raiders, 32-18. Earlier in the year, Harvard, playing without its Olympians, just squeaked by Colgate in a 4-3 overtime win at home. The Raiders are currently fourth in the strong...
...Which grants it a certain kinship with Catch and Release, a romantic non-comedy - it's really more in the mode of an old-fashioned "women's picture" - in which a woman named Gray Wheeler (Jennifer Garner) finds her wedding day turning into a funeral for her fiance, suddenly lost in an accident. For reasons best known to her, she continues to hang around his bachelor bungalow in Boulder, Colorado, mourning his passing with two former roommate (Kevin Smith and Sam Jaeger) and a visiting pal named Fritz (Timothy Olyphant), who turns out to be much nicer than he first...
...until the eighth President, Martin Van Buren, that America aimed lower. Van Buren was a smooth self-made man from upstate New York who clambered to leadership first in his state, then in the Democratic Party nationwide. He was a wire puller and wheeler-dealer. Former President John Quincy Adams praised his "calmness," "gentleness" and "discretion," though not his "profound dissimulation" and "fawning servility." Van Buren was a pol, first, last and always. He showed that intrigue and the art of popularity were now enough to win the White House. Since 1841, most successful presidential candidates have passed...
...Critics of The Secret, and even some fans, are bothered by its obsession with using ancient wisdom to acquire material goods. In one segment, a kid who wants a red BMX bicycle cuts out a picture in a catalog, concentrates real hard, and is rewarded with the spiffy two-wheeler. The Secret"is like having the universe as your catalog," says Joe Vitale, who is called a "metaphysician" in the film but whose website bills him as "Mr. Fire" - a marketing consultant with the power to sway consumers with a "hypno-buying trance." "The get-rich-quick parts really bothered...
...with squadron mate George Welch, became the first U.S. Army Air Force pilots to get airborne-and, under fire, shoot down at least six enemy planes-immediately following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor; in Tucson, Arizona. Taylor, then 21, was on his first assignment at Hawaii's Wheeler Field on the morning of Dec. 7, 1941. Hearing machine-gun fire, he grabbed Welch and drove to their planes. "I wasn't in the least bit terrified," he later said. "I was too young and too stupid to realize that I was in a lot of danger...