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...sharp contrast in playing style will also be evident tomorrow night. Whereas Brown is more of a defensive team, relying mostly on turnovers to set up the counterattack, Harvard plays a fluid, possession-controlled game. Whichever team is successful in pressing its style of play will probably wind up victorious...
...contrast, the general opinion of the student body, the pulse of the campus, or whatever you want to call it—to the extent it can be measured—should be taken with about a pound of salt, and perhaps even considered a reverse barometer of the right course...
Entering the season, preseason prognasticators picked UConn to finish well below its current standing, largely due to the 12 seniors whograduated last season. Soccer Buzz, for one, didn’t even have the Huskies in its top 25. Harvard, by contrast, was ranked No. 21 in the same poll despite having been shut out by UConn twice last season...
...dramatic contrast from only a decade ago, virtually all Harvard students have personal computers. A good old-fashioned radio, on the other hand, is becoming difficult to find. Undergraduates use the Internet far more often than they listen to the airwaves—illustrating the damage that will be done to nonprofit student radio stations because of a recent decision to charge royalties for songs broadcast over the Internet...
...many other issues, O’Brien takes visionary, progressive stances that contrast starkly with Romney. She supports civil unions and opposes “Defense of Marriage” legislation, which denies gays and lesbians basic civil rights. This civil union proposal would offer gay and straight couples the same legal rights. Romney claims to support gay rights, but he takes the Republican Party stand that marriage is sacred and reserved only for heterosexual couples. Though O’Brien should have been courageous enough to endorse gay marriage without any reservations, civil unions are unquestionably a step...