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...impossible to watch this plot unfold without rooting for the underdog and then remembering that Cruz is as bad as his pursuers, a wildcat crook with delusions of grandeur. Palmer does not blink at Cruz's venomous ethics, but he sinks this character in a landscape of almost unrelieved corruption. He portrays a Miami and environs where the heat is always on: "The sun was a bludgeon hanging over the landscape, poised to smash whatever might attempt to set itself above the level, and nothing larger than a dragonfly dared to venture into its sight; not from lassitude...
...shorthanded score that tamed the Wildcats last night. After Greg Britz broke a 4-4 tie at 15.35 of the final period, taking an across the slot pass from Jim Turner and beating UNH netminder Todd Pearson from 10 feet out. UNH quickly took a man advantage when a charging call sent Turner to the penalty box Ninety seconds later Mark Fusco relieved star Wildcat defenseman Peter Herms of the puck near the Harvard blue line and brother Scott took it away, zooming in on Pearson for his second coal of the game...
...exhilarating mood of August 1980, when Solidarity was born. In recent months Poles had staged symbolic work stoppages and street demonstrations to protest the imposition of martial law last December. This time the angry workers arriving for the first shift at the Lenin shipyard wanted action: they called a wildcat strike. Before long, Gate No. 2, scene of so much activity two years earlier as Solidarity grew into a force that shook the Communist bloc, was once again covered with red-and-white national banners, papal portraits and flowers. As strikers in drab blue overalls and hard hats chanted slogans...
...Wildcat Coach Jean Rilling hoped her team would break out of its scoring slump, a problem that has plagued UNH all season. The team Rilling calls "my scoreless wonders" has tallied but twice in their first six outings. "This is the lousiest I've seen them play this year," Rilling said, adding that in her halftime talk she threatened to walk off the field if her team's play failed to improve...
Harvard goalie Juliet Lamont kept the stickwomen in the game with some clutch saves, the biggest coming 10 minutes into the second half. Wildcat Co-Captain Joan McWilliams broke away on the right side of the field. As McWilliams drove towards a one-on-one showdown with Lamont, the Crimson netminder came out to cut down McWilliam's angle. The UNH senior drilled the ball straight at Lamont, who made a pad save to preserve the scoreless...