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Harvard's defense is fantastic, almost as good as its '97 version. That year, the Crimson allowed only four touchdowns in Ivy games, none of which came on the ground. All but the most masochistic opposing coaches gave up on the run early, and Harvard finished...
This play bathes in ambiguity--and almost drowns in it. One does not know why the families are suffering, why the French family is forced to leave its hometown and abandon their child. Who are these families? Are they Jewish? Are they resistance fighters? The director leaves important concrete details out of the picture on purpose--to assert the universality of the harm that World War II caused? Everybody already knows the war is bad, so what does this play do that's new? Part of the reason for the ambiguity, at least in the first part, is that...
Bredin anchors an aggressive defense that will try to slow down Harvard's high-scoring attack. That strategy almost worked at Bright last February, when the Big Green held the Crimson in regulation before falling in overtime, 3-2. In the ECAC semifinals, however, Harvard exploded in the second period to wipe out Dartmouth...
...Fairfield lost the game almost before it started, going down 2-0 in the first six minutes of the game off a pair of goals by senior forward Mary Guarino...
...from the most famous ruling on the subject: a 1962 Supreme Court ruling that, while it banned school prayer, did say that the Bible could be included in school curricula if taught objectively. "After the 1962 ruling a lot of administrators, just to be on the safe side, banned almost any mention of religion from their schools," says Van Biema. "But to some extent the evangelicals who've been active on the subject of religion in schools have a point, that administrators have been overreactive in keeping any mention of religion out of the classroom." The willingness of some...