Word: manning
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...bray at, as he did to his harried underlings at work - no one to shore up his resolve or share his desperation. Well, all right. Chuck is a doer. So he will fashion tools, clothing, shelter; find food, draw cave paintings, make fire. He will replicate the ascent of man, all by his lonesome. He'll be Robinson Crusoe without Friday, Gilligan without the crew, Survivor without all those annoying other survivors. Hanks has often played a decent man isolated - in his mind ("Forrest Gump"), his disease ("Philadelphia"), his bereavement ("Sleepless in Seattle") or outer space ("Apollo 13"). As Chuck...
...1940s Texas, a young man named John Grady Cole (Damon) loses the ranch he loves in an inheritance battle, rounds up a buddy (Thomas) and heads for Mexico, looking for work, looking for adventure; looking, without quite admitting it, for the sort of experience that will make men in full of them. That, stripped of the fancy writing that rendered Cormac McCarthy's novel unreadable to some of us, is the narrative essence of "All the Pretty Horses," and it's not a bad one. The lads almost immediately encounter a funny, violent, nutsy kid (Black), and you know right...
Though the power play unit received a much-needed boost with three goals on the man-advantage against Brown last week, the Bears currently sport a 59.5 penalty kill percentage, worst in the ECAC. Not surprisingly, the Catamounts held the Crimson power play scoreless on six attempts last Saturday...
Again, a shining spot for Harvard is its penalty kill, which dropped slightly to second in the league at 92 percent behind Cornell. Assistant captain Chris Bala proved that playing a man down doesn't always have to be a disadvantage, as he notched his first shorthanded goal against last weekend...
...skeptics, I'll run through the progression of dead presidents: President Abraham Lincoln, elected in 1860, was assassinated in a theater in 1865 by John Wilkes Booth, who seemed to think he was helping the South. President James Garfield, elected in 1880, was assassinated by a not-too-sane man who would have preferred Chester Arthur as President...