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Last year, after the Harvard women's squash team had defeated Yale for the national championship, Libby Eynon '95 declared, "We opened up a can of whoop ass tonight...

Author: By Brian N. Phillips, | Title: M. Squash Rules NCAA | 2/27/1996 | See Source »

...outcome was typical for Harvard, whose phenomenal team history includes an overall Ivy League record of 176-15, 30 Ivy League championships in 40 years and 28 national championships. Whoop ass, anyone...

Author: By Brian N. Phillips, | Title: M. Squash Rules NCAA | 2/27/1996 | See Source »

...improve, mature, branch out. "The next album I release, people could go, 'Boo, hiss, hiss, this girl's like another Tiffany or whatever,'" she told the Calgary Herald in 1991. "But the way I look at it...people will like your next album if it's a kick-ass one." In 1994 Morissette signed with Maverick records--run by Madonna, who knows a thing or two about musical makeovers--and with Jagged Little Pill has delivered the butt-kicking album she wanted. The sound is more muscular; her voice is rawer, the guitar work more aggressive. The songs are about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: ALANIS MORISSETTE: YOU OUGHTA KNOW HER | 2/26/1996 | See Source »

...persona that makes Jagged Little Pill so intriguing. Rebellion--against society, against one's past--is, after all, the essence of rock. When, on Right Through You, she sings, "You took me for a joke/ You took me for a child/ You took a long hard look at my ass/ And then played golf for a while," it's as startling as Chelsea Clinton with a Mohawk. Morissette's anguished, sometimes screechy voice is the sound of postadolescent independence. She's in the driver's seat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: ALANIS MORISSETTE: YOU OUGHTA KNOW HER | 2/26/1996 | See Source »

That advantage was erased when senior guard Amy Reinhard (six pts., two ass.) drained the first of her shots from downtown to give the Crimson a lead they held until the 10:39 mark of the first half. Eight minutes later another Proudfit three gave Harvard the edge once again after Feaster had tied the game...

Author: By Ed Perez-giz, | Title: Women's Cagers Edge UNH, 81-79 | 1/31/1996 | See Source »

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