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After playing only nine minutes last year, sophomore Anthony Pergolotti is the sole returning goaltender for the Engineers. Doubts about his inexperience, however, were put on hold this week after the young goalie stopped 30 shots in his varsity debut in RPI's 4-3 win over North-eastern. This solid play earned Pergolotti the Bauer/ECAC Rookie of the Week honors...
...computer and drumsticks. I think a more appropriate name for the band would be Beckphish. But that would detract from the fact that this is a genuinely original band that plays better live than on tape. The almost two hour set included all the songs off their touted debut, Irresistible Bliss and a few knucklers thrown in by lead singer M. Doughty...
Freshman quarterback Rich Linden, subbing for an injured Jay Snowden, turned in a solid performance in his debut as the starter, completing 12-of-22 passes for 175 yards and 2 touchdowns as Harvard (2-3 overall, 0-2 Ivy) displayed an effective passing game for the second straight week...
...bands in recent years have got bigger faster than the folk-rock group Counting Crows. Its 1993 debut album August and Everything After, tuneful and shot through with existential pain, was embraced by legions of listeners looking for thoughtful, mature rock, and eventually sold over 6 million copies. Rolling Stone promptly labeled the group "the Biggest New Band in America...
...like Billie Holiday, but, of course, she's not. Her name is Madeleine Peyroux. She is a 22-year-old American ex-expatriate who had been living in Paris, singing in the streets for money, but recently returned to the U.S. to pursue a more mainstream singing career. Her debut album, Dreamland (Atlantic), just out, is a bewitching blend of jazz, folk and blues--as well as the most exciting, involving vocal performance by a new singer this year. Peyroux's days of needing to play in the streets for cash are probably over...