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...face of Harvard’s relentless attack, McKenna’s success would be short-lived. Just 2:46 into the second, defenseman Peter Hafner’s wrist shot from inside the blue line kicked off a skater in front of the net and in, staking the Crimson to a 2-0 lead...
...have gone AWOL. Even as the number of desertions has fallen, the number of prosecutions, while still tiny, has edged up, from 153 in fiscal year 2002 to 171 and 176 in the past two years. Whereas offenders once had a good chance of getting a slap on the wrist and a dishonorable discharge, they now must consider the well-publicized case of Staff Sergeant Camilo Mejia, 28, of the Florida National Guard, who is serving a yearlong sentence at a military prison for his refusal to return to Iraq for a second stint...
...student groups or committees of the Faculty are specifically working towards ending it. The Ad Board can—and does—require students to withdraw for even minor cases, but when faculty are publicly caught for it, they receive a slap on the wrist or less...
...consummate celebrity CEO--right up until her final moment. Just a few weeks ago, the Hewlett-Packard board rapped her on the wrist for the company's dismal performance and ordered her to give some control of HP's four key divisions to line executives. Outwardly, her ever-confident manner gave no hint of the humiliating demotion, even after the reorganization leaked to the press. But charisma and confidence can go only so far. On Feb. 6, board members held an emergency meeting at an O'Hare Airport hotel. The next day they asked her to step down...
With the Crimson forwards applying heavy pressure as Princeton attempted to clear the puck into neutral ice, Mandes forced Tigers starting netminder B. J. Slapsky to lunge to his right with a well-struck wrist shot. Maki, parked at the right post, gathered the rebound, then arced towards the faceoff circle. As the defense gravitated towards the puck, Du quietly slipped in behind at the far post, where Maki found him for a can’t-miss tap-in at 18:25, extending the Harvard lead to three...