Word: pulling
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...seems likely that for ACT to go mainstream, it will have to shed its icky zealotry and grandiose predictions. ("We could get Muslims and Jews together in a workshop," Hayes said in Washington. "Our survival really is at stake.") Even so, Hayes may be crazy enough to pull it all together...
...Sunday against Princeton. A number of team illnesses also conspired against the Crimson in a closely contested 5-4 loss. Junior Garnett Booth, who did not play on Saturday, was just one of the Crimson players suffering from flu-like symptoms. He failed to pull off a crucial win against Vincent Yu of Princeton even after taking a commanding lead in the fifth and deciding game. Junior Todd Ostrow also played ill, and although he won his match on Saturday against Penn, he lost in three games to Tom McKay.“We didn’t beat ourselves?...
...street cred as a progressive is not something I worry too much about. People can look at the ten years that I've been in politics and pull the legislation I've passed and look at my votes and get a pretty good sense of what my values are and where I'm coming from. That's not something I worry about. . . Politically, I'm very secure. Obviously, things change rapidly, but the typical course for someone like myself who is in a strong position politically is to avoid engagement or conflict. Nobody would know if I didn't write...
...question the officials. “I was about to have a heart attack,” the coach said later. But he did praise the referee for calling a penalty shot in overtime when Princeton forward Sebastian Borza took out the net. Though Du couldn’t pull off a fourth goal, Pelle sealed the win 50 seconds later. It took 57 shots on goal—“first time in a while that we played a full 60 minutes,” Du said—but the Crimson finally silenced the Tigers for good...
...early hours of Sunday morning, Michelle Kwan made the made the most difficult decision of her life. The five-time world champion and two time Olympic medalist pulled out of the 2006 Olympic Winter Games due to an injury she sustained during her first practice session in Torino. "It was hard to make this decision, and one of the toughest I've had to make, but I know it was the right one," she told reporters later on Sunday morning. "I love and respect the sport and it's about bringing the best team to the Olympics. I wouldn...