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...primary culprit for the lackluster scoreboard showings has been neither stellar goaltending by the Crimson’s opponents nor particularly off-the-mark shooting. Simply put, Harvard (0-2-1, 0-2-1 ECACHL) just isn’t getting the puck to the net—a trend the Crimson will need to reverse tonight against Yale (0-4-0, 0-2-0) and tomorrow against Princeton...
...offense will necessarily flourish within the “new” framework. In the first 12:23 of Friday’s game, the Crimson attack flowed quickly and freely from zone to zone and when it didn’t, a Bears penalty was a likely culprit...
...while online communications are often a time-stealing culprit, some companies are finding relief in them. All the employees at Basex, an information-technology research firm in New York City, use instant messaging. A simple switch to DO NOT DISTURB status signals that coworkers shouldn't phone, email or stop by to chat. "There was never a memo on it. We all just started using the technology," says CEO Jonathan Spira. Finding peace and quiet should always be so easy...
...What if homework is taking the place of family conversation and games? Homework isn't necessarily the culprit. For children shuttled from lesson to lesson or for kids who have hockey practice every afternoon, homework is just part of a high-pressure package. "If you're going to send kids to a highly academic school or enroll them in advanced classes, you have to make that the priority," advises Michael Thompson, author of The Pressured Child: Helping Your Child Find Success in School and Life (Ballantine; 272 pages). "You can't pile on activities; the child will...
When the New York Times reported the story of Helen Hernandez in early August, fraud wasn’t the culprit cited. Rather, the paper underscored the technical mistakes plaguing election administration in this country. Indeed, according to a CalTech/MIT study, as many as 1 million votes may have been lost in 2000 due to such polling place errors...