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...Before Sunday’s game, Michigan back Stephanie Johnson had been a perfect 3-for-3 on penalty strokes. But facing the presence of Zacarian in goal, she pulled a stroke wide on two separate occasions. Opponents have failed to score on penalty strokes against Zacarian in three tries in Harvard’s last three games...
...Rajneeshee attack is back in the news, thanks to Germs: Biological Weapons and America's Secret War, a new best seller that--by a stroke of publishing fortune--landed in bookstores the day the World Trade Center was destroyed. Its three authors, journalists at the New York Times--Middle East reporter Judith Miller, science writer William Broad and investigations editor Stephen Engelberg--were prebooked on the TV publicity circuit. Over the past few weeks, they have been everywhere, retailing their horror stories of Soviet germ weapons programs, Iraqi anthrax stockpiles, Japanese nerve-gas attacks and an American biowarfare defense program...
...Crimson was fortunate to be down by only a goal, given that Yale was awarded a penalty stroke with 10:10 left in the half after Harvard goalkeeper Katie Zacarian was called for a foul. Yale senior Erin Tennyson took the stroke to the bottom left corner of the cage, but Zacarian made the diving save...
With Nesberg’s foul, Harvard was awarded the second penalty stroke of the day. Junior back Katie Scott sent a flick just wide of the top right corner of the goal, leaving the score tied with nine minutes left in the game...
...terror of this loss goes way beyond writers, of course. It's just that writers depend on the ability to make connections out of thin air, or no air. The novelist Jean Stafford lived with the dread that she would be crippled by a stroke (she was). H.L. Mencken was a stroke victim who, at the end of his life, was unable to read or write. One of those who sat at his bedside and read to him was Manchester...