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...Smaller than Hitler's heart." - Jim Murray, sportswriter, on Henderson's barely-there strike zone, Sports Illustrated, April...
There is little doubt that Obama's city background has shaped his policy priorities. Of all the candidates in the 2008 primaries, says Glaeser, "Obama was clearly focused on issues of the city, like the Harlem Children's Zone," a nonprofit antipoverty effort that Obama hopes to replicate in 20 cities across the country. When Obama got involved with civil liberties issues as a state legislator, it was to spearhead a law requiring the videotaping of all confessions and interrogations in capital cases, which disproportionately involve urban defendants in Illinois...
...untimely high sticking penalty turned the game back over to Yale, as the Bulldogs knocked another one in on the power play, putting them ahead, 4-1.“As soon as we seem to get something going and get some penetration down in their zone like we did in the first couple of minutes of the second period there, something happens, either a penalty or an icing or something that goes the wrong way,” Fraser said. “We talk a lot in the locker room that bounces come from hard work...
...offense enough to limit Harvard’s quality shots on goal in the first, though the Crimson would finish with 13 shots in the first period and 34 shots on the game. But Yale’s hustling and scrappy defense kept the puck in the Harvard zone for most of the game and forced Crimson to rush looks and fight for the puck in the corners when the team did manage to mount attacks in the Yale zone.The Bulldogs’ aggressive play drew seven Harvard penalties on the night, including several in the second period, interrupting...
...From Fire Mountain, black plumes of smoke are visible over Gaza, the result of the latest Israeli air strikes. In a matter of days, or hours, the reservists could be ordered into the war zone. It is not something they relish. But, they say, Israel's security is under threat and must be defended. "We have nowhere else to go. Even if our land is burning, it's still ours," says a soft-spoken reservist named Noam, a TV producer in civilian life. He tells me: "Do me a favor, OK? Tell your readers that we're just normal guys...