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...Crimson during late-January intra-squad scrimmages. “We’re definitely on the upswing,” junior forward Christiana Lackner said of the team, which has gone 3-1 with only a two-point loss to second-place Brown since the Dartmouth defeat. “In the first half, we were still figuring out all of our roles. Now we’ve figured out our roles. We’re gelling. Our offense is together. Our defense is together. “The week off helped,” she said...
...waning minutes of last year’s Ivy League basketball playoff against Dartmouth, a defeated Harvard bench and a lopsided box score told the story that two regular-season thrillers between the Crimson and the Big Green could never tell.Harvard, come-from-behind darlings in two previous games against Dartmouth, just did not have the interior muscle to contend with bruising Big Green forward Elise Morrison. Throughout last season, the Crimson lacked a true offensive and defensive post presence. The result? Harvard outhustled and often outshot slower opponents, but the Crimson fell short—literally—against...
...when Aronofsky and Williams tone it down for the modest middle sequence, where modern-day researcher Thomas hunts for a cancer cure that will save his wife, the book becomes an unconvincing melodrama with two stock archetypes: the driven scientific male who struggles to defeat death and the beatific, artistic female who courageously accepts it. Without the star wattage of real people to put over the chemistry of the characters, the authors never build up a convincing case for the timelessness of this relationship. They need to stretch out the quiet bits, but, even at over 160 pages, the pace...
...President Robert Mugabe lost a nation-wide referendum on constitutional reform. The defeat was a thinly veiled criticism of Mugabe’s leadership and a revolt against a proviso which would have indefinitely extended his rule. Mugabe’s response was vicious. He intimidated opposition and stacked parliament and the courts with his supporters, doubled the police force, formed academies to militarize youth, and encouraged renegade gangs to enforce his policies...
...Crimson 12-4 in the second period—that led to the cushion heading into the final frame.The loss means that Harvard hasn’t won a game in the first round of the Beanpot since 1998—but Donato credits this year’s defeat to the opponent.“From the net out, they played a very smart, very solid game,” Donato said. “They deserved to win.”—Staff writer Malcom A. Glenn can be reached at mglenn@fas.harvard.edu...