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WORCESTER, Mass.—For the second year in a row, the Harvard men’s hockey team concluded its season in Worcester. Or perhaps it might be more apt to say the team had its season concluded. A year ago, Maine shut the door in the first round of the NCAA tournament. This season, BU played the role of doorman, ending the Crimson’s hopes for the Frozen Four...
WORCESTER, Mass.—For the second year in a row, the Harvard men's hockey team concluded its season in Worcester. Or perhaps it might be more apt to say the team had its season concluded. A year ago, Maine shut the door in the first round of the NCAA tournament. This season, BU played the role of doorman, ending the Crimson's hopes for the Frozen Four...
This explanation is particularly apt. The mission DoubleTake set forth in its first issue was a profoundly moral one—and in their determination to fulfill it, the editors had assumed an almost messianic stance regarding the sanctity of their message. But even non-profit enterprises are eventually called to account for their financial solvency, and DoubleTake’s provisional approach to the issue has more than once jeopardized the medium of their message...
...ride the bench," or sit on the sidelines while the stars play. Says Pat Babcock, UConn's senior administrator for women's sports: "We ask our women's coaches to carry a lot of players, but the five or six who don't get into an event are apt to go off and do other activities rather than stay on a team for which they don't get to participate." Heather Linstad, the women's ice-hockey coach, who came to the school in 1997 when the team became a varsity sport, says there's an understandable reason for that...
...copy of Shakespeare’s complete works, for example, which I have borrowed from my father who bought it, used, in the early ’70s, includes both cryptic notes (including “Wed. 8/ Apt. 2” and “Mrs. Price—$94”) and such historic marginalia as poorly drawn peace signs in blue ink—one of which is actually the Mercedes logo. A copy of E.B. White’s collected essays that I’ve been reading contains running marginal criticism...