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DULUTH, Minn.—The Harvard women’s hockey team is back in the national championship game. After a humbling 7-2 loss to Dartmouth in last Sunday’s ECAC final, the Crimson (30-2-1) returned to fine form, crushing Minnesota 6-1 in the Frozen Four semifinal. A women's hockey tournament record 4,801 fans attended the semifinal games...
...interference penalty and a 10-minute misconduct. Harvard was thus forced to kill the two-minute penalty and play the next ten minutes, including five of overtime, without the best defenseman in the world. Yet through those ten minutes, the Crimson did more than hold its own, generating some fine chances. Freshman Jennifer Skinner did her part in replacing Ruggiero on defense for that span...
That change is the work of network president Bonnie Hammer, charged with "broadening" the fan base, which, not to put too fine a point on it, largely means: bring in women. Hammer dismisses the idea that "female sci-fi fan" is a contradiction in terms. "Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein," she notes. But the key to attracting women, and nongeek men, is emphasizing drama over technology, psychological drives over warp drives, fi over sci. "These viewers want things that have more emotional and ethical components," says Hammer. "They'll say, 'I'm not a sci-fi freak, but I loved...
That's a photograph of a waterfall on the dust jacket of A Ship Made of Paper (Ecco; 352 pages), Scott Spencer's very fine new novel about wild love. But don't imagine it's there because his reckless lovers--one white, one black--find a happy ending at Niagara Falls. This is a book about love as a torrent, a force of nature that overwhelms families, harrows lives and lays waste to whole towns as it thunders through. Love may be our only hope, but when you put this book down--not an easy thing...
...they’re talking to Harvard, that’s fine and dandy, but I’d rather be doing it myself,” he said at a tenants’ association meeting of about 20 Charlesview residents last Wednesday. “If not I, and all of us, are left up to our very active imaginations...