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With Deland penalized for tripping, Harvard junior captain and defenseman Jamie Hagerman set up Van Reesema for another shot. This time the shot was deflected to Catlin, who spun around and fired a wrist shot into the goal at 15:12 of the second. It was Catlin’s eighth goal of the season...
...Crimson utterly dominated the third period, outshooting the Tigers 10-2. Ingram found Corriero open in the zone at 1:20 into the period. Corriero, leading the nation in goals with 18 entering the game, added her 19th on a quick wrist shot...
...fecal shade of brown really goes perfectly with my beige ottoman. Good doggie.” In a recent review session, a professor reminded students that the final exam would be closed-book and that “you can only bring in what you can fit on your wrist.” Similarly, when I suggested that the women’s crew team was holding oar blades to the throats of college writers, I did not expect any sentient reader to take me literally. Possibly the line was not funny. Certainly it was not true...
...your return. But that was then - before our priorities shifted in the wake of the attacks, and before you showed us you're not the all-powerful superman we'd come to expect. Don't get us wrong, there's something endearing about your bad knees, your sore wrist, your human frailties. Now, at 38, you seem more, well, a little bit more like the rest of us, playing for a spectacularly mediocre team, still showing us those flashes of sheer brilliance, but generally slowing down a bit. You haven't gotten the coverage you would have if tragedy...
...think about backing up." Once again, I follow instructions, and soon I glide in reverse to where I started. With a twist of the wrist, I pirouette in place, and no matter which way I lean or how hard, Ginger refuses to let me fall over. What's going on here is all perfectly explicable--the machine is sensing and reacting to subtle shifts in my balance--but for the moment I am slack-jawed, baffled. It was Arthur C. Clarke who famously observed that "any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." By that standard, Ginger is advanced indeed...