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Saturday's game marked the sixth time Harvard has scored three goals or fewer. It's record in those games: 0-5-1. When it scores at least four, Harvard is 5-0-0.... Woe Canada: Harvard is 0-3-1 when the Canadian anthem is played before a game.... Senior Kirk Nielsen was thwarted by the right goal post midway through the second period.... Harvard nullified two of its own power play by taking penalties, one of which was retaliatory and definitely unnecessary.... Four of Harvard's five wins have come against Ivy League school. Good news: Princeton...
...tensions began before most of the fans entered Appleton Arena when a couple of players from each team engaged in a mini-fracas during the pre-game warmups. Nothing significant amounted from the affair, and the officials separated the two teams peacefully.... It was only fitting that the Canadian anthem was played in addition to the "Star Spangled Banner"--besides being a heartbeat away from Canada, 18 of St. Lawrence's 20 dressed players hail from the country up north...
Oddly, and sadly, the solution does not answer the fear. Politics is no cure for cultural assimilation. A flag and an anthem do not assure cultural vitality. The faith that they will is as desperate as it is sentimental...
Mellon Collie is a sprawling album of many moods. The opening track (also the title song) is a quietly moving piano-based instrumental; by contrast, the next song, Tonight, Tonight, is an expansive rock anthem, complete with soaring guitars and a 30-piece string section. "Believe, believe in me," Corgan sings, as if pleading for listeners to trust in his band's huge undertaking. Many of the songs here--such as Jellybelly, Here Is No Why and Muzzle--have an appealing, loose, raw edge. Others, like the nine-minute-long Porcelina of the Vast Oceans, flow gracefully and naturally along...
...thin side. And somebody ought to tell her that good doesn't rhyme with either food or blood. But passion, not precision, is her forte. Her soul-felt songs are the cries of a woman who lives with pain and learns from it. In the set's sweetest anthem, she sings, "So be your own parent/ And treat yourself good/ It's never too late/ To have a happy childhood." As the lifers and loners in Chapman's audience know, the good times have got to start sometime...