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...Saturday’s testing set of races on the Schuylkill River, Pa., it soon became clear that the Crimson would not replicate its first and second varsity open-water wins at the same event last year. The Harvard lightweights battled staunchly against defending national champion Cornell, only to lose out on victory by margins of a couple of seconds in this kick-off to the spring season, marking the first time in five years that Harvard has lost the event. However, the Crimson boats all finished significantly in front of the third competitor, Penn. The shape of the course...
...bioethics, we’ve secured a budget surplus only a fool would deem exhaustible and the storm clouds of Cold War anxiety have retreated from view. America’s the prettiest girl at the dance. Of course, the news isn’t all sunny. Our national champion Michael Tyson dallied in cannibalism in a recent bout with Evander Holyfield, but we at the Crimson are certain he will be back out of trouble—and back in our hearts—in a few brief months. Hang in there, Iron Mike! The April 28 concert...
...Harvard softball team wrapped up interdivisional play the same way it began it last week: sweeping its firstdouble header and getting swept in the second.The Crimson took two from host and two-time defending league champion Princeton on Saturday, 5-2 and 3-1. But the next day, it was on the wrong end of the sweep, as it fell to Cornell, 9-8 and 6-4. The games were played in Providence because of a snowstorm in Ithaca.Despite Sunday’s sweep, Harvard is still in good shape as it enters divisional play. The Crimson...
...small-town cops, with such amusing situations as shootouts at the Neighbors’ Market and interrogations concerning the differences between vans and minivans. It also typecasts Zooey Deschanel as the responsible yet humorless younger sister, and features some bizarre, seedy-underbelly types, like the thieving and Ultimate Fighting Champion-training LM Gazaniga (Ebon Moss-Bachrach, “The Lake House”) and the entertainingly vulgar hardware store owner, Hesh (Judah Friedlander, “30 Rock”). The film’s strengths lie in its musical and visual trappings. Good costuming insured that each caricature...
...have gone through the year, I guess I knew something special was going to happen. The sky was the limit.”At Oxford Academy in New York, O’Connor garnered four New York state championship titles and was a five-time sectional champion. O’Connor was also named first team All-America and a member of the Amateur Wrestling News Dream Team. Ranked number one in his weight-class for Nation’s Best 2006 High School Wrestlers, O’Connor finished his high school campaign with a 238-12 record.To...