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...It’s tough, and it’s obviously something you want to avoid,” said Smith of the Union goal to start the game. “But…we had a lot of energy on the bench and we didn?...
Bernakevitch carried the puck into RPI’s zone along the right boards before running headlong into the Engineers’ defense. Adroitly sliding the puck between the first defender’s legs, Bernakevitch sped towards the net to avoid a second before quickly blasting a shot just over the top of the left corner in what proved to be the Crimson’s last best chance...
What then can we expect of the Crimson in the last two weekends of the season? Where will it finish relative to its rivals in the ECAC? It seems unlikely that Harvard could avoid all five of the ECAC teams it has struggled against, but much depends on the seeding in the first round of the playoffs and which teams manage to secure opening round byes...
That would leave the Crimson with home ice in the first round of the playoffs and a date with the Dutchmen, and would have had Harvard narrowly avoid Princeton, thankfully...
...essence of Shipler's message is that working poverty is a seamless web of challenges, some personal, some erected by a society content to let the federal minimum wage languish at $5.15 an hour. And that's for those who can avoid the unscrupulous bosses who make workers falsify their time sheets so they work longer hours for the same pay. Then there are the fruit pickers who have exorbitant housing costs deducted by labor contractors who warehouse the workers in filthy barracks. As for garment workers, they can be paid at piece rates--try three-fourths of a cent...