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...brief moment in time, fans had a chance to watch them in Crimson jerseys. For now, their names are fresh on our minds and will continue to hold firm places in Harvard hockey’s history books. One only hopes they continue to play a role in women’s hockey in one capacity or another...
Lifland’s ruling came in a suit filed by the Forum for Academic and Institutional Rights (FAIR), a network of 20 law schools challenging the Solomon Amendment. Harvard is not a member of FAIR, but a majority of the HLS faculty filed a friend-of-the-court brief on FAIR’s behalf in January, arguing that the school was in compliance with the amendment even before Clark granted the Pentagon a waiver...
...hard-liners who now dominate Hamas' board of directors. But last summer founder Sheik Yassin, in his elliptical way, sketched out for me how Hamas might consider a more accommodating solution. The sheik was cadaverously frail, and he had been ill for two weeks when I gained a brief audience at his house. His high-treble voice was so faint I had to lean awkwardly close to hear. But he remained the movement's ultimate authority. While he leveled boiler-plate criticism at the "racist" Israeli state and the religious rationale for Hamas' stand, he hinted there was room...
...Cotswold "Olimpicks" - events included cudgel fights and bearbaiting - survived until the intervention of tut-tutting vicars, landowners and justices of the peace in 1852. The sport of shin kicking, a variant of wrestling - with heavy boots and few rules - hung on a few decades longer. It even enjoyed a brief vogue in the U.S. In 1883, New York's Sunday Mercury ran a wince-making account of one bout in which a certain McTevish "gave Grabby what is known as the sole scrape. Beginning at the instep and ending just below the knee, Grabby's left shin was scraped almost...
...mouth the word "lesbian." Just as perverse, the French often opt for "le petit oiseau va sortir," Spaniards say "patata," while the Japanese have adopted the English term "whisky." As the relator of such delightful trivia, the latest elicitor of the smile is author Angus Trumble, whose A Brief History of the Smile (Basic Books; 226 pages) produces an abundance of them. Begun as a speech delivered to the Royal Australasian College of Dental Surgeons in 1998, Trumble's book artfully deconstructs the smile "into more lines than are in the new map with the augmentation of the Indies...