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Keeping up with past patterns, the Harvard ski team finished ninth for the third time this season at the 98th annual Dartmouth Winter Carnival this weekend. In the last two seasons, the Crimson has earned eight consecutive ninth-place results and has stayed consistent so far this winter. The Big Green came out on top, pushing past the 10 other competing North East schools. The defending NCAA champions exercised their home course advantage, earning a team total of 725 points. Of the Crimson’s 256 points, 29 were put up by sophomore Christopher Kinner on the Alpine side...

Author: By Kara T. Kelley, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Crimson Stays at Ninth In New Hampshire | 2/11/2008 | See Source »

...bout.However, after a major decision 15-1 win by Picarsic and a forfeit in favor of third-ranked O’Connor, the Crimson took a commanding 10-3 lead. With the forfeit, O’Connor pushed his season record to 18-1 and would later finish the weekend at 19-1. The sophomore also remains undefeated in dual meets, providing to this point a dependable victory in the Harvard lineupLatessa added a major decision of his own at 157 lbs and Button picked up a close, 9-7 win, pushing the overall margin to 17-3. Princeton freshman...

Author: By Max N. Brondfield, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard Notches First Two Wins | 2/11/2008 | See Source »

...Eight for the second year in a row, the Crimson men failed to join them as they had last year, and the women failed to reclaim their past glory. After going 2-1 in the first weekend of the Ivy Championships, the men continued at the same pace to finish third overall, falling to the Lions, 18-9, but defeating Brown, 21-6. The women also finished third, losing, 17-10 to Columbia and a nail-biter, 14-13, to the Bears, despite defeating Cornell, 17-10. The men were simply overmatched in the meet against the Lions, with...

Author: By Madeleine I. Shapiro, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Repeats Too Tall Of An Order | 2/11/2008 | See Source »

...HAVEN, Conn.—With both teams riding three-game Ivy losing streaks, the Harvard men’s basketball team went to Yale on Friday night looking to turn its season around. But after the Bulldogs (8-11, 2-3 Ivy) used a 20-5 run to finish the first half and the Crimson (6-15, 1-4 Ivy) turned the ball over 17 times before intermission, that turnaround will have to wait, as Yale knocked off Harvard, 83-70, at the John J. Lee Amphitheater. With Harvard down 24-23 with 6:57 to play...

Author: By Kevin C. Reyes, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: First Half Run Seals Loss at Yale | 2/10/2008 | See Source »

...Ellen first interact at a club, the writing becomes far too blunt for the complex emotional situation. In this way, Beane’s words at times threatens to overwhelm his plot. While Diane, who seems to be made purely of plastic, venom, and dynamite, can rhapsodize and finish off with an expletive-filled punch line, the same sort of writing comes off as glib in the mouths of more earthy characters like Mitchell or Alex. The real success in this method of punchy writing is Ellen, whose inexhaustible supply of sarcastic retorts only makes her helplessness starker and ultimately...

Author: By David S. Wallace, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 'The Little Dog Laughed' Too Comedic to be Taken Seriously | 2/10/2008 | See Source »

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