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...back line and fell into the path of the speedy Sheeleigh. The sophomore saw her effort to slot the ball across the goal mouth deflect in for the game’s first goal, her second of the season.“I was just running down the flank...I was looking to put [the ball] back in, and we had our team crashing in,” Sheeleigh said of the goal.Before that tally, Harvard had controlled possession. Junior forward Christina Hagner brought the crowd to its feet in the 16th minute, hitting the post with a powerful header...
...forcing non-threatening attempts on goal. Junior keeper Lauren Mann made 11 saves. Freshman Melanie Baskind got the Crimson on the board first in the 10th minute. After a good string of possessions, she received a pass from co-captain Nicole Rhodes, made a quick turn, raced down the flank, and struck the ball into the corner of the net with her left foot. Baskind leads Harvard with three goals and eight points this season. After the goal, Boston College controlled the tempo and maintained almost all of the possession for the rest of the game...
...George Bush is a killer. George Bush is a killer....Close all USA Torture Camps....Lies + war = treason.” The brightly colored signs flank the White House, framing it for passersby, a folksy song plays across the street, and I am taken back to the 60s—not surprisingly, as looking around I realize that most of the protesters are probably of that generation. Now, into their middle age, they dutifully resume their spot outside the establishment with painted signs that say, “Wage love...
...disastrous charge. It was a course of action that defied reason (personified here by Lieutenant General James Longstreet, who is underwritten and underplayed by Tom Berenger). Lee's opposite number in the film's dramatic scheme is Colonel Chamberlain, commander of a ravaged regiment assigned to defend the Union flank on the hill known as Little Round Top. A college professor and, as played by Jeff Daniels, a soft-spoken humanist-idealist, he is democratic man at his best. And a commander of steely resolve. Almost out of ammunition, unable to withstand another Confederate charge, he mounts a bayonet assault...
...More importantly, the Russians believed they could attack too, particularly against a team with a one-striker system as the Dutch employ. The Russians are not plodders. It's a team of whippets: thin, very fit and athletic. Against Greece, left wing fullback Yuri Zhirkov repeatedly attacked up the flank and poured cross after cross toward the tall striker Roman Pavlyuchenko...