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Having brought her team back from the brink of collapse to qualify for this weekend’s NCAA Frozen Four, Stone will lead the Crimson into Durham, N.H. for a national semifinal date with St. Lawrence tonight. Durham is home to the University of New Hampshire, where Stone was a two-sport star and captain of both the hockey and lacrosse teams in the late...
...reports where kids or people sit in rooms for days to get a psych bed—some wait 60 days,” he said. “We are on the brink of a major problem...
...been 25 years since Martin Scorsese unleashed his third classic, coming only two years after Taxi Driver proved that the Italian-American movie-maker was no fluke. Robert DeNiro, the star of that movie, appeared again as a powerful figure on the brink of insanity, this time as Jake LaMotta, a real-life former middleweight boxing champion whose power had a tendency to also manifest itself outside the ring, and who followed up boxing with stints in the mob, prison, and stand-up comedy. In honor of this occasion, the Brattle Theater is celebrating with a week of Raging Bull...
Entering the final weekend of the season, Harvard (12-13, 7-5 Ivy) has the opportunity to take some of the shine off the Ivy League’s most illustrious program. The Tigers (13-12, 4-7) enter their game against Harvard teetering precariously on the brink of the school’s worst Ivy League season. Since the team joined the Ancient Eight in 1956-57, Princeton has never had a losing record in league play—a monument to excellence that Harvard can smash by giving the Tigers their eighth defeat of the year...
...think we can step back from that brink of holding a vote of no confidence,” Laibson said...