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...second half, with Porter posting the lowest second-day score of just 17 points. Also invited to compete in the tournament was team co-captain Sloan Devlin. Devlin, however, was unable to participate in the event, due to the fact that she had been selected as a Rhodes Scholarship finalist and had to remain in Boston for interviews. —DANIEL J. RUBIN-WILLS
...Rousseau’s autobiographical “Confessions” was a long, hard slog, but the hours spent reading “Restless Genius” simply disappeared like a box of Lindt chocolate truffles. Here we have a good biography—a National Book Award finalist, no less—on a fascinating subject. Those who have a passing acquaintance with his life story should refresh their memory, and those who do not should get acquainted. —Staff writer Joseph T. Scarry can be reached at scarry@fas.harvard.edu...
Last spring, Harvard and Stanford were chasing the same girl. Anna K. Kendrick, a Boston resident and graduate of the Winsor School, had scored acceptance letters from both coasts. A national crew champion and National Merit Finalist, Kendrick had made her case—now it was the colleges’ turn to make theirs...
...Whitaker has been a poster boy for the anti-psychiatry movement. In Mad in America (Perseus Books), he argued that the assumption of a physical cause for schizophrenia had given rise to many wrongheaded treatments, from ice-water immersion to today's antipsychotic drugs. These days, the Pulitzer Prize finalist makes a similar case against psychiatry over its approach to the treatment of depression...
...power play and mustered only two even-strength goals last weekend against Quinnipiac and Princeton. Against Big Red goalie David McKee—whose early 2.48 GAA and .900 save percentage stand in start contrast to the numbers of last year’s Hobey Baker Hat Trick finalist season—Harvard skaters will need to follow up more shots, crowd the net, and risk bodies for rebounds. “They’re a bunch of big boys,” said sophomore forward Tyler Magura, “and we’re going to have...