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Those points were all the Harvard defense would allow until the last three minutes of the game. Walker was, after all, the textbook definition of a rookie quarterback, and it would have taken a perfect game from an experienced signal caller to combat a ferocious Crimson defense. “We knew if we were able to stop Penn’s running game and force them into a passing game with a younger quarterback that would give us an advantage,” senior linebacker Bobby Everett said...
...when this newspaper went to press, American troops had taken control of 70 percent of the Iraqi city of Falluja. In some of the most intense sustained combat since Baghdad fell, this week American and Iraqi troops have wrenched block after block from a web of snipers and insurgents. The success of this mission is imperative, and our thoughts and prayers go out to the thousands of American troops and Iraqi soldiers and civilians whose lives are on the line daily...
...World Blues.” However, anyone familiar with the latest iteration of the Allman Brothers Band knows that Haynes is capable of much more when paired with young virtuoso Derek Trucks. When the two play, Haynes seems to leave his pentatonic comfort zone a bit to combat Trucks’ sheer ingenuity and natural sense of rhythm and melody. Alone, Haynes and the Mule still impress, but don’t experiment with tempo, feel or melody as much as they could...
Yesterday Harvard’s biggest fans of the video game, in which users try to defend the earth from aliens, joined enthusiasts across the nation in celebrating the release of “Halo 2,” the successor to “Halo: Combat Evolved...
...already confessed my unmanly affection for Halo, which may be the single most perfect video game ever made. Halo 2 (for Xbox) hits stores Nov. 9, and it offers more of the same adrenalized, flawlessly orchestrated, hyper-realistic combat (the new game lets you rock two weapons simultaneously, John Woo--style, which is not actually that useful but hella fun), but its real genius lies in its architecture. It's staged like Wagnerian opera: you fight through vast, Olympian structures, combating mind-hurtingly titanic forces, and the effect is precisely that mixture of awe and terror and wonder that...