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...impression that the JV squad and the varsity squad were separate entities and that they really had nothing to do with each other. We never practiced or played with the varsity, never had any social functions with them, and the only thing we did together was the final banquet...

Author: By Michael R. James, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Taking the Long Road to Stardom | 3/9/2006 | See Source »

...tournament, though Howell said he hoped to double those numbers with a serious registration push Sunday through Tuesday. The event aspires to be more than video games. The final rounds will be played March 18 on the big screen in Science Center C, preceded by a banquet at which musical groups are expected to perform “Smash Brothers”-themed pieces. A VIRTUAL ICEBREAKERLarge-scale gaming isn’t limited to freshmen, either. Last Thursday, another classic Nintendo game was at the center of a Harvard social event. Currier House?...

Author: By Patrick R. Chesnut, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Gaming: Better Than Talking? | 3/1/2006 | See Source »

...beneficiaries are entrepreneurs like Neeta Raheja, who runs a wedding-planning company called Creative Explosions. The firm organizes weddings that range from $20,000 (the average cost of a wedding blast in the U.S.) to $2 million, which gets you hand-painted invitations by artist M.F. Husain, a Thai banquet for 2,000 and a helicopter to ferry the groom to the ceremony. Indian weddings, Raheja says, are more than the union of boy and girl: "It's the merging of two families, often two businesses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letter From New Delhi: Land of the Wedding Planners | 2/19/2006 | See Source »

...beneficiaries are entrepreneurs like Neeta Raheja, who runs a wedding-planning company called Creative Explosions. The firm organizes weddings that range from $20,000 (the average cost of a wedding in the U.S.) to $2 million, which gets you hand-painted invitations by artist M.F. Husain, a Thai banquet for 2,000 and a helicopter to ferry the groom to the ceremony. Indian weddings, Raheja says, are more than the union of boy and girl: "It's the merging of two families, often two businesses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letter from India: Land of the Wedding Planners | 2/13/2006 | See Source »

...that is the point, after all, in spite of patriotic excess, overpowering wedding-banquet music and all sorts of anxiety. It is the refuge of sport that keeps athletes and fans coming back for the Olympics, summer or winteran exhilaration felt with the U.S.'s first gold medal on Saturday, won by Chad Hedrick in the men's 5,000m speedskating event. No matter what is said by Dante in his Inferno. For the occasion, his famous line should read, "Reclaim every hope, ye who enter here." Let the Games begin. 34 Team U.S.A.'s magic number to match...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Once Upon A Winter's Night... | 2/12/2006 | See Source »

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