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...Eagles went on to win the national championship, but the Crimson built off the momentum of that performance and by the exam break was contending for first place in the conference, even picking up a win at Clarkson, a feat not done in four years. Harvard hit upon some times to start the month of February beginning with a 2-1 heartbreak at home against Cornell, but spiraling into getting swept at the Beanpot and dropping 7-0 at Dartmouth, its worse loss in 20 years...
...Later on in the season, the team duplicated that feat, beating Brown in New York with a group of alums in the stand, including former All-American Mike Zimmerman '98. Zimmerman got the opportunity to watch a potent and balanced scoring attack in action. The pre-eminent threats on the attack were junior Mike Crosby, sophomores Mike Masterson and Istvan Zollei and senior Grant Garrigues. Freshman 2-meter Todd Schulte also made an immediate impact in his first season...
...Schutte won the 400 in 55.26 seconds and also placed fifth in the 200. By winning four consecutive 400 titles, she matched the feat of two-time Olympian Meredith Rainey...
Sadly, most of the problems in the end seem to come down to the direction. It is no small feat assembling a cast and crew like this, putting up a technically difficult show in a short timespan. But the extra elements that make a show not just functional, but truly great (or even involving) are absent. The characters don’t appear to have relationships with one another. And while fairy-tale characters don’t have to be too deeply etched, their actions need to be believable given their personalities, and their bittersweet solo numbers need...
...half of what's wrong with Artemis Fowl. The writing is abysmal: "Keep calm, he derided himself." Or, "If one of his own men had pulled a stunt like this, he'd have their stripes for it." Cliches fester on nearly every page: "hollow threat" on 87, "no mean feat" on 88. Dialogue is rarely "said"; it is "whined," "quipped" or "grunted" ad, literally, nauseam. Supposedly admirable characters "smirk...