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...scoring one of the best goals ever in a World Cup, men’s or women’s, popped the ball and flicked it behind American defender (doing her best impression of static molasses) Tina Ellertson, then beat her to the ball, dummied another defender, and coolly struck it into the net for the final Brazilian goal...
...half of action, looked to be continuing to have his way with the Mountain Hawks (3-1) defense. The Crimson had plenty of time to get into field-goal range before time expired—at worst the game would go to overtime.But on the next play, bad luck struck. With Lehigh blitzing, the offensive line folded and multiple brown jerseys pounced on Pizzotti. He tried to throw the ball away, only to fumble and have the ball recovered by Hawks defensive tackle Paul Bode, who ran it back 27 yards for a touchdown.Just two weeks before, Holy Cross quarterback...
...Bush tell the world's major economies that this global warming thing might actually be a problem and that we should maybe consider doing something about it eventually. Or you could catch the Clinton Global Initiative's annual meeting in Manhattan, where billionaire executives, extremely smart people and star-struck journalists listened raptly as Brad Pitt detailed his plans to rebuild New Orleans in fabulously green fashion...
...again and again, quietly and memorably, so that the atrocities of 9/11 would not be forgotten. She told it to me in the summer of 2004, over coffee in Times Square. Head was on the 78th floor of the South Tower of the World Trade Center when a plane struck the building, she said. The fire burned her terribly. She made it out, only to discover that she'd left her life behind: her fiancé was in the North Tower, she said, and he had died. She did not dwell on the graphic. She seemed, more than anything else...
...begin? Head, who did not cooperate with the Times other than to say she did nothing illegal, did not respond to my e-mail request for comment. Nor did her lawyer. But in talking with other survivors who knew her, and looking back on my own notes, I am struck by the paradox of her case. After 9/11, there were thousands of stories of suffering, each exquisitely painful. But Head's tragedy was different. It was a story of surviving one tower - only to be metaphorically crushed by another. And ironically, it may have been the unimaginable scale...