The killer vanished into the night, leaving a cold trail behind him.

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But they survived some real pressure as David Murphy flashed a header inches wide of Rob Green's right-hand post and then struck the killer blow on the night - and, they hope, the tie - after introducing the fresh legs of Cole and Zavon Hines.

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"I was at IIT nearly 30 years ago, but just last week I woke up sweating in the middle of the night dreaming that I was back there sitting for one of those killer exams, " admits Sudhakar Shenoy, the CEO of IMC, a software services company in McLean, Virginia.

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