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You’d think that back-to-back Ivy League titles would leave the Harvard women’s basketball team feeling a bit confident in its game strategy and complacent with its overall performance. But you’d be wrong: the Crimson is hungrier than ever and hopes that its level of play can be pushed to new heights to secure the league crown for the third consecutive year.One of the chief goals for Harvard this season will be improving its offensive level of play, and that starts down low with its corps of forwards. Three-year...

Author: By Nico S. Theofanidis, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: BASKETBALL '08 SUPPLEMENT: Standing Tall | 11/13/2008 | See Source »

...players an easier time.“In high school you go hard a couple days,” Kenyi says. “Here you go hard every day, but you have to fight through it.”“Their heads are spinning a little bit,” Amaker adds. “With school, being away from home, and hearing me coach and teach, rant and rave.”The toughness of both the program and the academics seems to have been the catch that drew the players to the Crimson rather than...

Author: By Paul T. Hedrick, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: BASKETBALL '08 SUPPLEMENT: Youth is Served | 11/13/2008 | See Source »

...shelter’s work contract director, Eleanor R. Wilking ’09, began the event by noting that the dinner was “a little bit bittersweet” because, “we envision a day when our services as an emergency homeless shelter will no longer be needed...

Author: By Evan T. R. Rosenman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard Homeless Shelter Kicks Off Year | 11/13/2008 | See Source »

...narrative voice arrives to offer its personal thematic thoughts, it often transforms into a different voice by sonnet’s end. Themes are dealt with and quickly discarded, including culture clashes, the horrors of battle, eroticism, and the war between the sexes. In one particularly memorable bit dealing with the latter issue, Étienne powerfully joins (and then separates) the idea of the phallus with woman: “I was dreaming that sister had her member cut off by me. / In my dream I held the remaining part in one hand. / And in the other the amputated...

Author: By Samuel E. Chalsen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 'Horsemen' Is a Crazed Ride | 11/13/2008 | See Source »

...he’s notorious for his spotty live shows). Backed by a large musical ensemble, Reed delivers his poetic lines with an enthusiasm equal to the task. And while his voice shows signs of weather from years of abuse, it doesn’t hurt the songs a bit. The recording quality is pitch perfect throughout, and many of the album’s most poignant moments have benefited from the long hiatus and new appreciation for the work. Take “The Bed,” where Reed narrates Jim’s thoughts as he recollects...

Author: By Joshua J. Kearney, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Lou Reed | 11/13/2008 | See Source »

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