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...shirtless men cheering on, the Crimson played in one of the greatest Ivy League matches in the program’s history, winning the game and the Ivy title in a 2-1 double-overtime thriller. What mattered nearly as much was what happened off the field. The crowd packed the stands, spiraling out to the Columbia side of the field. From the final 10 minutes of regulation until Lizzy Nichols’ penalty kick winner with nine seconds to go, no one sat down. For almost 30 minutes of Saturday’s game, no one stopped cheering...
Eight acts took the stage of a crowded Cambridge Queen’s Head pub Friday night for Battle of the Bands. Four of those bands would win a contract with Veritas Records, Harvard’s student-run record company. Already victors among the approximately 50 band submissions to compete in the Battle, the winners represent a range of styles.Opening the night was Caitria O’Neill, the stand-in name for a band formed specifically for the competition.“I found out I was playing in Battle of the Bands,” Caitria...
...lessons - personal growth, ethnic solidarity, the meeting of true hearts - that Mad 2, like virtually all animated films, feels compelled to teach. Maybe that's salutary for the wee ones, but I'll bet they, and their elders, prefer the subsidiary creatures, who in the movie's better moments crowd the screen and take over, like the Preston Sturges rep company in The Miracle of Morgan's Creek and Hail the Conquering Hero - or like Scrat the Sisyphusian squirrel in the Ice Age pictures. In Mad 2 we get some penguins and a lemur, all balm to the comic spirit...
...intern at the Center who helped Castro Samayoa organize the exhibit. “It wasn’t too out there, but it was enough to make a statement.” Several pictures highlight the role of college women in the movement. In one, hundreds of women, crowded under Radcliffe and Wellesley banners, march down a New York street in a suffrage demonstration. These images link past activism with the current political atmosphere on campus. “It’s such an inspiration seeing people our age parading... being pro-active and so mature...
...convinced was one friend that Barack Obama wouldn't win the U.S. election that she offered to wager money with anyone in the small crowd gathered around the TV at an election party in North Tehran on Tuesday. Despite Obama's clear lead in the polls, the woman was unconvinced. "How much do you want to bet?" she demanded. There were no takers willing to bet against some surprise turn of events that would deny Obama his expected victory. "Just like our Guardian Council handpicks the candidates [in Iran's elections], their Supreme Court chose Bush in 2000," another friend...