Word: canadians
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...women's collegiate hockey. This is the first season of the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) Women's Division I League, which welcomes two more schools to the old ECAC Women's Alliance. With three players from the gold-medal U.S. Olympic team and two from the silver-winning Canadian team making their way from Nagano back to the northeast this winter, the ECAC should be more competitive and more fun to watch...
...comfort level will be important because, as Mleczko says she witnessed first-hand at Nagano, chemistry will be vital to the team's success. Harvard's roster will have three returning Olympians--Angela Ruggiero (U.S.) and Jennifer Botterill (Canada), as well as Tammy Shewchuk, a late cut from the Canadian Olympic squad...
October 28, like January 1, December 25 (I am Jewish, but that just makes it worse) and December 26 (Canadian Boxing Day), had always been an anticlimactic experience. But because this birthday would be less a fleeting blur of metallic balloons and singing cards than a crossing over into the world of the initiated, there would be no disappointment. The "day" was not the important part of this year's commemoration of my aging; 21 was the gift that would keep on giving...
Newly added to the Crimson roster this year are freshmen Angela Ruggiero--late of the gold-medal winning United States Olympic team--and Jen Botterill of the silver-medal winning Canadian team. Returning to the roster from year-long training absences are co-captain and U.S. gold-medalist A.J. Mleczko and sophomore Tammy Shewchuk, Harvard's 1996-97 leading scorer and a final cut from the Canadian Olympic squad. Returning from the 1997-98 squad are Harvard's Most Valuable Player and leading scorer, sophomore Angie Francisco, Ivy League Rookie of the Year Kiirsten Suurkask, their linemate and senior sparkplug...
...first site, a Taino village on the northern coast of Cuba now known as Los Buchillones, has been protected from decay in a layer of clay at the bottom of a shallow lagoon. Last May a Canadian-Cuban team discovered the nearly intact remains of a Taino dwelling buried in the muck. It has since located the foundation of as many as 40 structures, most likely a combination of communal buildings, outbuildings and single-family houses. The site is so extensive, says David Pendergast of the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, that "there's no doubt that a regional chief...