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Before the fatal mistakes of the late fourth quarter, the rest of the game was marked by Harvard's defense bailing out the mistakes of the offense by coming up big in the red zone...
...attention. In the three decades since the soft-spoken microbiologist co-founded the Washington-based Center for Science in the Public Interest, he has enraged the restaurant industry (fettuccine Alfredo: "a heart attack on a plate"), forced a ban on sulfites at salad bars after a rash of fatal allergic reactions, shamed McDonald's into excising beef tallow from its French fryers, roused moviegoers against artery-clogging coconut oil in popcorn and successfully lobbied for nutrition labels on all supermarket processed-food items...
Blessed with a clean slate, the Crimson can now forget its recent slump, which proved not to be as fatal as was originally thought...
...council's intention of fighting on-campus homophobia was laudable, but the bill itself was plagued with problems. First, it failed to allocate any money for publicity, a move that proved to be fatal. More fundamentally, the bill trivialized the very problem it aimed to eradicate. By presenting homophobia as a "challenge" that could be sufficiently addressed with a single project or event, the council overlooked the systemic nature of homophobia on campus. It diverted attention away from seeking long-term solutions that would have a more significant impact than some one-time event...
...memories of her play in the clutch are still fresh: her game-tying assist in the 1999 ECAC final, her lead-off goal in the 1999 National final, and her scorching slapshot from the blueline in last year's fatal loss to Dartmouth that would have saved Harvard's season had it not been stolen out of the air by Amy Ferguson's high glove...