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Back in December, Harvard opened with a string of shots that were all stopped by Brown’s goaltender, sophomore Mike Clemente. The scoreboard remained empty until 1:58 remained in the first period, when Bears sophomore Jared Smith was able to deflect a shot past Crimson netminder Kyle Richter for a 1-0 lead...
...wake of the attacks, Nelson has done his best to deflect attention from the special arrangement. He insists the deal wasn't his idea, and, in a Jan. 15 letter to Senate majority leader Harry Reid, Nelson asked that special treatment for Nebraska be excluded from the final legislation. In the same letter, however, Nelson repeated something he has been saying since word of his special deal got around - that newly eligible Medicaid enrollees in all states should be fully and permanently paid for by the Federal Government. At first, this seemed like a crude and overly expensive solution...
...Even Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan Chase, who has seemed to be more open to new regulations, sought to deflect attention away from lax regulation as the sole cause of the crisis. "I want to be clear that I do not blame the regulators," Dimon testified. "The responsibility for the company's actions rest with the company's management...
...state-sponsored press has reinforced efforts to deflect criticism for Egypt's Gaza policies by appealing to nationalist sympathies, focusing on the killing of the Egyptian soldier during last week's clashes, and on Hamas extremism. Last weekend's opinion pages were flooded with vitriolic rants against Hamas that ranged from accusing it of having neither religion nor country to accusing it of acting in Israel's interests...
Despite his accomplishments and his ambitions, Bakker is also quick to deflect credit from himself, and he often drops the names of others involved in these organizations. “I think the best work is done collaboratively, and the college environment doesn’t always teach us to work collaboratively,” he says. “Extracurricular activities have been so meaningful to me during my time here. There’s definitely an element of competition at Harvard that dissolves when you start working on human rights issues...