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Every student has his or her own theory as to why our campus seems romantically challenged. While the explanations might vary over the years, many students identify problems with their fellow peers—and not their own lack of initiative—as the culprit of their love life deficiency. A Crimson article published in 1993 cited Harvard women’s less than perfect presentation as a significant contributor to the problem. “Harvard men see a pretty wide cross-section of the Harvard female population. But when they watch Florida State football games...
...appearance of avian flu in July, and the apparent Vietnamese cover-up, would mean that this virus has had months to roll through the chicken population, possibly mutating and becoming more pathogenic as it goes. The culprit this time is the same as in Hong Kong in 1997: the H5N1 influenza virus. Historically, this virus has wreaked havoc mainly on poultry. Among chickens, the disease manifests itself as a hemorrhagic fever, turning a pen of healthy birds into a bloody mass of goop and feathers within 24 hours. Since the 1960s, each reported appearance of the disease has drawn...
Junior guard Kevin Rogus, the Crimson’s most accurate three-point shooter entering the night, was the biggest culprit, hitting only one of his nine attempts and missing all seven of his shots from behind the arc in the second half...
...guilty of stealing change and cases of beer, wine and Coke from a pool hall. He filed his own appeal to the Supreme Court, which ruled that the poor must be provided free counsel in serious criminal cases. During the retrial, Turner undermined previous testimony and presented an alternative culprit, winning Gideon's release. "When I die, they'll probably put over my grave, 'Here lies Gideon's lawyer,'" Turner said earlier this year...
...seem a bit critical to cite a power-play unit that has converted three times in its last three games as the primary culprit in the Harvard’s 3-0 loss to Clarkson, but Harvard’s inability to capitalize on the man advantage was—along with the stellar play of Golden Knights’ netminder Dustin Traylen—the primary reason that the Crimson had only a two-point weekend...