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...Harvard, it turned out, was not what either of us thought it would be. It wasn’t the place where you could grapple with the maxims of ancient philosophy in a room where the Magna Carta was signed (Catizone’s dream breast). And it wasn’t the place where people skipped school for three weeks at a time to play Madden and ingest horse tranquilizers (Schonberger’s dream breast...
...League this past week, while senior back Beth Sackovich and freshman goaltender Kelly Knoche were each awarded second-team status. McDavitt paced Harvard this year with 12 points on four scores and four assists. The designation marks the second straight year she has been recognized among the Ancient Eight elite. As a sophomore, she was named to the second-team, and as a freshman McDavitt was an honorable mention and Ivy League Rookie of the Year. She also received third-team All-America status as a junior. The captain will graduate in June as the fifth-leading scorer in Crimson...
...Slavs!”, written by Tony Kushner (“Angels in America”) and directed by Aoife E. Spillane-Hinks ’06, literalizes this conundrum. The actors portraying the ancient “giants” of the Party wear stilts to tower over others, and one topples over the dead. One character prays for vodka from a religious icon with Lenin’s face pasted over the saint’s—and her prayers are answered. In vignettes such as these, the play paints a picture of Russia during the collapse...
Playing in its last two contests of the season, the Harvard women’s volleyball team failed to pick up a victory this weekend at the Malkin Athletic Center, finishing 0-14 in the Ivy League just one year after capturing its first Ancient Eight title...
RHEUMATOID RELIEF: CAN IT BE CANNABIS? Sativex, a drug that contains marijuana--or cannabis--extracts, not only lessens the pain of rheumatoid arthritis but also seems to suppress the disease, according to a five-week study of 56 patients in Rheumatology. It was the first controlled trial of the ancient analgesic on that condition...