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...overall, 3-5 Ivy) didn't fare too poorly. Against the Lions (7-15 overall, 5-3 Ivy) on Saturday, a respectable if not incredible middle-division Ivy League squad, Harvard won the first game, 9-5, before dropping a close second contest, 8-6. Against a downright solid Quaker team (13-7 overall, 5-3 Ivy) on Sunday, the Crimson made a heroic comeback in the first game, only to lose 10-9, and then dominated the second game...
Like March itself, spring training is one of those interim periods. In fact, it's downright bizarre. As we northerners rush inside to escape the cold, the boys of summer frolic on the verdant fields of the sunny south. The Mets play the Yankees, the White Sox play the Cubs, yet no championship is up for grabs. And none of it seems to matter much...
There is something so tenebrous, so portentous, so downright antagonistic about Alfred Schnittke's music that it is almost a wonder anybody either performs it or listens to it. In Schnittke's dark, Russo-Germanic artistic universe, strings do not soar, they brood; woodwinds do not chirp, they protest; brass does not shine, it glowers. Created in the caldron of Central Europe, his music speaks of epic battles and terrible defeats; it is Kutuzov and Napoleon at Borodino, Von Paulus at Stalingrad. Why, then, is it suddenly so popular...
...many science courses, the B+ is sort of an achievement. In other classes, the B+ is downright easy to get. Last semester, students in Biological Sciences 2 accumulated 189 final grade of B+ or lower. Compare this statistics to "Chinese Family, Marriage and Kinship," where there were 280 grades of B+ or above and only 84 scores below...
...Getaway" holds our attention because its pace gradually quickens into a whirlwind. It is a film packed with hilarity, action and fun. The best part about it is that the people who collectively embody all the insipid, distasteful, and downright repugnant personality traits that one might encounter in the course of daily life get blown away. It's very cathartic that...