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Wearing its best diplomatic hat, the Crimson exchanged gifts with the opposing players before the contest and broke bread with them afterwards. In between, however, Harvard was taking care of business en route to a 90-80 victory...

Author: By Eduardo Perez-giz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: W. Basketball Deports Slovakia, 90-80 | 11/10/1997 | See Source »

...Mark (Alex Jennings) says, "He's boring" or "Her money is too new" or, late at night when he's drunk too much, "You'll do." His friend Maude (Charlotte Rampling) has a practiced irony in her smile; life has taught her to walk gracefully among land mines and, en route, to plant a few. The smile of journalist Merton Densher (Linus Roache) carries a soft ruefulness, something that understands failure. And in the smile of Maude's niece Kate Croy (Helena Bonham Carter), there is a sly gravity, a love of intrigue for revenge or profit. Kate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: ALL HAIL TO HELENA! | 11/10/1997 | See Source »

...last time something like this happened was in 1993-94 when the team lost only two players and subsequently cruised through the regular season en route to the NCAA playoffs...

Author: By Rebecca A. Blaeser, | Title: ECAC HOCKEY | 11/7/1997 | See Source »

After a Harvard timeout at 10-10, Julie Yick served two aces en route to five straight points, shifting the pendulum in Harvard's favor and giving...

Author: By Amy E. Ooten, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Women's Volleyball Defeats Northeastern | 11/6/1997 | See Source »

...medieval times, a series of customs developed around "Hallow E'en" (Hallow Evening), many deriving at least in part from the holiday's earlier pagan incarnation. It became traditional to eat nuts and apples; the nuts were especially important because young girls were encouraged to watch them as they roasted, interpreting their behavior as an omen of the faithfulness or inconstancy of their beloveds--if the nut cracked or jumped, one was thought to be in trouble. The relationship between this custom and the Celtic belief in the power of New Year prophesies seems clear enough. Other traditions of note...

Author: By Eric M. Nelson, | Title: All Hallows' Today | 11/3/1997 | See Source »

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