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Last season, Matt Brunnig was fitted for contact lenses on the eve of the Crimson’s climactic doubleheader with the Big Green in Hanover. The lanky senior then went 6-for-13 in the final four games of his collegiate career, highlighted by a 400-foot drive to the depths of Dartmouth’s Red Rolfe Field’s cavernous center field...
...year ago today, the Harvard men’s lacrosse team sat at a 2-2 record on the eve of the start of the conference slate, hovering within the realm of the same Ivy mediocrity that had plagued the program for the ten years prior.What followed to conclude the year was a similarly-themed 4-4 record, but an improved Ivy League meant a sympathetic NCAA selection committee, and for the Crimson, its first NCAA tournament birth in a decade.But the 2007 season has taken an entirely different route. Through four contests, Harvard sits at the bottom...
...back in 1949, the French writer Simone de Beauvoir recognized that because men have traditionally been considered the primary or default model for humanity (wasn’t Eve made of Adam’s rib?), women are judged according to this standard and therefore appear secondary and “inessential...
...bawdy songs of hurdy-gurdy players and tasting beer in pubs where flies circle the mugs and idlers hotly debate the increasing radicalism of the revolution in France.They also befriend their neighbor, the enigmatic Blake, whom they have spied playing a prelapsarian Adam to his wife’s Eve in the garden.Blake shares with the children his completed collection “Songs of Innocence,” and Maggie is struck by the opposition she sees between her own life experience and the pastoral idyll of childhood in the poems—mothers gazing lovingly upon their sleeping...
...timing of the computer-generated film, which depicts the ancient confrontation of Sparta and the Persian empire at the Battle of Thermopylae, is certainly inauspicious. It falls on the eve of Norouz, Persian new year, a time when Iranians typically gather in proud celebration, observing rites that date back over 3,000 years, way before Islam, to the age of Zoroastrianism, when their ancient land produced the world's first monotheistic religion. It is not a particularly welcome season to be portrayed as pillaging, deranged savages. Since the entire country will be on two weeks of official holiday, there will...