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Again the start of the third period proved to signal the Crimson’s undoing, though its ultimate downfall was not nearly so grand as in recent years past. The Wildcats mounted no game-breaking three-goal flurry. Harvard did not wither in the face of some four-tally comeback for the ages. But just three minutes into the final regulation frame, UNH did draw level, erasing the Crimson’s narrow one-goal lead and seizing whatever momentum Harvard had mustered in the 40-plus minutes prior to the equalizer...
...people can even vote--it's a remarkable experience." Bush views his decision to press for the transformation of Afghanistan and then Iraq--as opposed to "managing calm in the hopes that there won't be another September 11th, that the Salafist [radical Islamist] movement will somehow wither on the vine, that somehow these killers won't get a weapon of mass destruction"--as the heart of not just his foreign policy but his victory. "The election was about the use of American influence," he says. "I can remember people trying to shift the debate. I wanted the debate...
It’s a sickening feeling, watching the fourth championship contender in as many years (Harvard—2001, Penn—2002, 2003) wither and die under the most ill-conceived of all of the ignorant policies—and there are myriad—the Ivy Presidents have passed in relation to athletics...
...warming, dams, deforestation and slash-and-burn farming exponentially exacerbate these seasonal weather patterns. Inept and corrupt water management also contributes to the problem, allowing plentiful water to run off to the seas or leaving it to lie in floods on the land, while a few hours away, crops wither in parched fields. South Asia's water woes are hardly unique. China faces simultaneous floods and droughts every year, as devastating surges down the Yangtze River cause hundreds of millions of dollars in damages, while deforestation turns farmland north of Beijing into desert. In Uzbekistan, the Soviets created...
...regular top-ups to my Crimson Cash account. Beyond the carefully constructed myth of the dutiful student, clutching ID in hand while feverishly xeroxing all over campus, is the terrifying truth: I don’t think I’ve ever used a photocopier in college and instead wither away most of my plastic money at the Coop on magazines and superflous stationery...