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...next season, making his senior season correspond with that of sophomore quarterback Liam O’Hagan.Over the next two years, the two could form a dangerous Crimson passing tandem.GOAL SHIFTIt’s been a very long time since the Harvard Football team found itself in such a dire situation this early in the Ivy season.The last time the Crimson (3-3, 1-2 Ivy) dropped two out of its first three league games was back in 1996, when Harvard lost its opener to Columbia and also lost to Cornell before knocking off Princeton. That Crimson team finished...
...desire to prove herself and her obsessive interest in the pair (both motivations are hammer-to-the-head bluntly laid out in intelligence-insulting voice-over form). In the process, she manages to sleep with Morris under an assumed identity, alienate Collins, and get plenty of standard-issue dire warnings not to stick her nose where it doesn’t belong (wonder if she’ll ignore them?). How the girl wound up two thousand miles away and dead is an interesting little mystery, but it is ultimately the only driving plot element to the movie. Like Morris...
Many thanks for your recent op-ed (“Stemming the Tide,” Oct. 13), with its bracingly dire portrait of Harvard’s plague of student clubs. Its author, Adam M. Guren, shows an excellent and most perceptive contempt for the young. It is something I have experienced myself, this contempt, strolling through the Yard, assailed at all sides by bankers’ boys in blazers and jeans like a bunch of dime-store White Stripes, girls furred in leg warmers against the warmth of the May, and each one of them First Secretary...
...leaders of SLAM—who wage their campaign of guilt via rhetorical exaggerations about dignity and respect—are in dire need of serious introspection and critical analysis of the immediate and less obvious implications of their statements, their cause, and their own individual choices. SLAM and the SEIU act out of a combination of misinformation, miseducation, and self-preservation. We’re all owed more than that...
...Coldplay, flawlessly executed but too slickly produced. “What a Wonderful Man” is boring, candyfloss pop that acknowledges Wilco’s “Summerteeth” in its forcedly peppy instrumentation and retro harmonies. But while Wilco vocalist Jeff Tweedy always sounds too dire to make any of his poppier efforts irritating, James sounds cloyingly precious. “Off The Record,” while awe-inspiring in concert, sounds paradoxically forced on the record. Still, the band retains its flair for the redeeming musical moment. “Lay Low?...