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...interception by linebacker Jeff Svicarovich with 2:51 remaining appeared to seal the game for the Crimson, but a Wilford fumble gave Penn the ball at its own 37-yard-line. Facing fourth-and-10, Penn quarterback Gavin Hoffman threw a 50-yard touchdown pass to receiver Brandon Carson, putting Penn up 21-17 in shocking fashion...
...loss set up two dramatic postseason contests in Lynah Rink. In the second game, junior winger Chris Bala gave the Crimson a 3-2 lead in the third period, but Cornell scored a pair of goals 25 seconds apart to seal Harvard's fate...
...important stagecraft, Bush invited the G.O.P.'s high priests of national security--former Joint Chiefs Chairman Colin Powell, National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft and Secretaries of State Henry Kissinger and George Shultz (who was skeptical about the idea when Reagan embraced it)--to give his plan their seal of approval by standing with him. Some aides wanted a speech, not a press conference, fearing reporters would try to trip him up on nuclear arcana. But Bush, an aide said proudly, "answered all the questions himself!" As part of the effort to appear presidential, he even dispatched aides to give advance...
Stanford never looked back. Shouey and Dani Bell outscored the Crimson by themselves, finishing with three goals apiece. Crimson sophomore drivers Christine Meiers and Natasha Magnuson and freshman Jane Humphries added a goal apiece, but Stanford outscored Harvard 8-3 in the final two quarters to seal...
Another factor was the rapacious overuse of resources. The goats, pigs and sheep brought by the Norse ate or trampled the forests and shrub lands, eventually transforming them into bare ground. Without enough fodder, the farm animals could not survive. The Norse were forced to eat more seal, seabirds and fish--and these too became locally scarce. The depletion of Greenland's meager trees and bushes meant no wood for fuel or for repairing ships...