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Students attending yesterday’s event generally praised Lieberman—though not all were ready to pull the voting lever for her husband...
...Cubs have rabid fans, and people would tune in from across the country because these teams have pull. The Red Sox Nation is thriving right now, reaching far beyond the Northeast. After Game 5 at the Coliseum, the Boston players went back on the field to celebrate with the legions of Sox fans in attendance—in Oakland...
Which is part of what makes Great Fortune (Viking; 512 pages) great reading. More than just a supremely entertaining book, Daniel Okrent's cartwheeling account of how Rock Center came together is indispensable for anyone looking for reason to believe--and who isn't?--that we can pull off the same miracle where the World Trade Center stood. What we learn from Okrent, a former editor of LIFE magazine, is how a group of mismatched and combustible characters could make the thing happen. It didn't require much. All they had to do was undertake a project that would have...
Despite a comfortable 28-6 Harvard lead at the start of the fourth quarter, the Huskies made the game’s final moments interesting by scoring two late touchdowns to pull to within eight with one minute remaining. On the ensuing onside kick, Northeastern looked to be in business for a brief moment as the ball slipped through Balestracci’s grasp...
Brady capitalized on Fitzpatrick’s mistake, completing a 36-yard pass to wide receiver Quintin Mitchell to set up tailback Tim Gale’s one-yard touchdown run to pull Northeastern to within 15 points...