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...Battery Park walk, we stop in the small park at the north holding The Real World, Tom Otterness? playfully satiric sculpture garden. The witty images - a fat cat borne on a huge coin by oppressed little men, the teetering Babel of a miniature skyscraper (protected by a moat where odd creatures lurk), the iron dog eyeing an iron cat eyeing an iron bird eyeing an iron worm - all testify to a Boschian view of predatory capitalism; and the kids love it. And walking through the Winter Garden plaza, we make sure our visitors read the legend, from poet Frank...
...during her time with the U.S. National Team. Already a prolific goal-scorer with Harvard thanks to her hard blue-line slapshot, she’s emerged as one of the United State’s top offensive-minded defenseman. She now has the skating ability to finish an odd-man rush with the grace of her forward counterparts...
...most ridiculous example of this solicitousness is the talk in Washington of hurrying the fighting so as to finish before the onset of Ramadan. We'd already limited air strikes on the first Friday of the war in deference to Muslim sensibilities. This is odd in the extreme. The Arabs had no compunction about launching the Yom Kippur War on the holiest day of their enemy--and during their own Ramadan. Indeed, Egypt celebrates the 1973 Yom Kippur War not just as the October War but as the Ramadan...
...against stiff odds, the defense held strong. There were few of the odd-man rushes and turnovers in The defensive zone that plagued the Crimson last season. The Crimson allowed only 53 shots on goal for the weekend. Last year, the defense regularly gave up more than 30 a game. Last year, the defense regularly gave up more than 30 a game...
Brown’s quick transition play resulted in an odd-man rush, and Denis blasted a shot past Crothers from the left