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...title, Mercyhurst had Harvard on the brink of elimination in the NCAA Quarterfinals. Corriero rose to the occasion, scoring four of Harvard’s five goals—including the game-tying goal to force overtime—as well as assisting on the final game-winner in triple-overtime...
...when junior tri-captain Julie Chu forced home the game-winner with 7:32 left in the third extra session it came on the kind of picturesque 2-on-1 breakaway the nervous crowd had hoped for. Freshman Sarah Vaillancourt slotted a pass ahead to tri-captain Nicole Corriero, who had scored all four of the Crimson’s goals to that point. Charging up the right side, Corriero dished at the last possible second to Chu, who buried the puck top shelf to end the longest game in NCAA tournament history...
...wrote that last section in a farmhouse in Tuscany," Cunningham says. "And every morning the loveliest little greenish-purple lizard would dart back and forth. She had exactly that aspect of intense creaturely otherness. I liked her a great deal." What does it feel like for a Pulitzer winner to put words in the mouth of a lizard? "Dizzying and odd-but that's as it should be," he says. "I just have the very vaguest stirrings of what I want to write next-and again, it's something I can't possibly do." -By Lev Grossman
...speed world has a new demon. At this year's Indianapolis 500, Danica Patrick, 23, became the first woman to hold a lead in the race. Winner Dan Wheldon passed her with six laps to go, and she ended up placing fourth. But TV ratings soared, and she has injected new life into the struggling IndyCar circuit. Patrick spoke to TIME'S Sean Gregory from her Phoenix, Ariz., home...
...Richard Corliss wrote a great story on the new Star Wars movie. Revenge of the Sith looks like exciting summer entertainment and a real winner. I wasn't thrilled with the past two Star Wars movies in the prequel trilogy, but I'm looking forward to this one. Mel McCormick Baltimore, Maryland...