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...most famous U.S. ice-hockey victory, the Miracle on Ice, at the 1980 Lake Placid, N.Y., Winter Olympics; in an auto accident, near Forest Lake, Minn. A hockey obsessive known for his strategic imagination and nose-to-nose motivation, he adapted Team U.S.A.'s training and tactics to the wide-open European-style game and convinced his team of amateurs that they were destined to beat the hockey powerhouse that was then the Soviet national team. They did, 4-3, in a game that instantly became famous. They next beat Finland to win the gold medal. He went...
...Being in the South was a shocker for many of us,” Kang, who is from California, added. “We hadn’t had much experience with these wide-open plains and huge pickup tracks and lots of Texan pride...
...July, a costly special election will be held in the fall. Voters will be asked whether Davis should be removed from office--and, on the same ballot, which candidate should replace him. With no runoff, the candidate who gets a plurality of votes wins--which makes it a wide-open contest. Several prominent Republicans, including losing gubernatorial candidate Bill Simon, former Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan and movie actor Arnold Schwarzenegger, are eyeing the seat. One prospective candidate, multimillionaire Congressman Darrell Issa, has put up $445,000 of his own money to back the recall effort. Democrats...
...seems like every year folks from East and West alike have to sing L.A.’s praises. East coasters point to the beaches, waves, temperatures that rarely drop into the 60s and wide-open spaces. And native Southern Californians often fanatically defend their home, usually relying on arguments that have something to do with how L.A. is so “laid back” or how living there is a “way of life, dude...
...killer came three minutes into the third period, when Harvard let Frantisek Skladany skate a full circle around its own net unimpeded. Grumet-Morris saved the first wide-open shot, but the still-uncovered Skladany grabbed his own rebound and gave the Terriers an insurmountable 6-3 lead...