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Despite a valiant effort by the Crimson, Harvard falls to Yale 34-24 in the 117th Harvard-Yale Game. Because of a high turnover rate and a strong Eli defense, Harvard could not gain victory...
...real payoff for the level at which Harvard had been playing was the second game against Yale in the playoffs. Some Eli antics sparked a comeback in which a 3-1 second period Crimson lead turned right around to a 4-3 deficit a couple of minutes into the third. But this HaHarvar Harvard team was composed and disciplined and promptly went about putting together a four goal period to bury the Bulldogs...
Both Joplin and Nyro (who died of cancer in 1997) are back together onstage, after a fashion--each being celebrated in a new off-Broadway show. In Eli's Comin', five performers (including golden-voiced Broadway vet Judy Kuhn) wend their way through a bookless compendium of 20 of Nyro's best-known songs. Though assembled into a very loose narrative (young girl arrives in New York City; by the end she's sharing confessions with what looks like a therapy group), the show works best--marvelously--as a showcase for Nyro's idiosyncratic and influential music, a lush, emotionally...
...fess up to anything as crass as pandering to nostalgia. "Janis Joplin's music sells better now than it did 20 or 30 years ago," says Jennifer Dumas, producer of Love, Janis. Diane Paulus had never heard Laura Nyro's music before she was asked to direct Eli's Comin', and she argues that this new breed of musicals fits perfectly in the theater's participatory tradition. "If you can bring music into the theater that the audience already has a connection to, you're just increasing the power of what the theater event can be," she says...
...five other seniors who received the scholarship are Sean Bennett `01, E. Joanna Guldi `01, Eli L. Diamond `01, Isaac S. Nakhimovsky `01, and Roman Martinez `01. Of the American scholars chosen as recipients, Harvard has the most of any college...