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Harvard was able to preserve its three-goal lead thanks to Ruddock, who stopped every Brown scoring opportunity, including a few breakaways and hard wrist shots from point-blank range...
...footage of the 16-year-old and 17-year-old boys who were brought back to New Hampshire to face charges of stabbing two Dartmouth College professors to death. Why might they have done it? Will Eminem explain? As at Columbine, the mind comes up against a small blank wall of incomprehension. Our great-grandparents' minds came up against the same wall when they heard about Leopold and Loeb and Bobby Franks. Leopold and Loeb murdered the child. The boys (if they did it) went in the other direction - to parricide...
...isolated from the "regular" curriculum, and it is graded pass-fail. Students therefore treat it with overt contempt. Where regular classes are characterized by active, engaging class discussion (class participation typically accounts for 50 percent of one's grade), S&E classes were characterized by long periods of blank silence. Where regular classes are characterized by unanimous participation (skipping classes in the business school is a severely punishable no-no), S&E classes saw students leave to interview at investment banks...
...referees made highly questionable calls in Dartmouth's favor in each of the three periods. In the first, freshman goaltender Jessica Ruddock appeared to stop Dartmouth forward Jennifer Wiehn from point-blank range on the breakaway...
White. Senator Frank Murkowski of Alaska, standing on the floor of the Senate last month, holding up a blank sheet of white paper. That, he says, is all you can see in winter on the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge's coastal plain--just "snow and ice." So what could be wrong with drilling for oil in such a bleak, deserted region in the distant northeastern corner of Alaska? There is nothing there...