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...completely different,” Harvard captain Matt Stehle said. “Night and day. One’s slow and causes you to change your defensive strategy...and for Penn, it’s just speed. Speed, speed, speed. It’s ball screens and flare screens all around the free-throw line extended, which makes it very difficult.”That speed has allowed Penn to become the highest scoring team in the Ivies this season, despite shooting among the worst in the league from the free throw line and from behind...
Sean Darling-Hammond ’06 volunteered to read the sex scene aloud for the entertainment of everyone on the ski trip. He did so with great dramatic flare, though he was frequently interrupted by laughter. Everyone lost it when Eve offered Steven some Vitamin V, after a few rounds of rather short-lived lovemaking—the poor guy is in his late sixties after...
...they are and we just don’t show it.” The third frame was yet another example of the Crimson’s untimely lethargic starts. With numerous errors early on, Harvard again found itself in a deficit, down 12-6. The team showed some flare to pull within three at 22-19 on a kill from senior Seamus McKiernan, who posted a double-double with 17 kills and 13 digs. On the whole, however, the team hit a meager .079 and was riddled with service errors in the 30-23 loss...
...He’s playing a new position,” senior Seamus McKiernan said. “He came in and played like a senior, leading the team and playing superbly in the clutch when we needed him.”McKiernan added his own flare with six kills in the third game and 21 overall.“[McKiernan] is our best player,” Crimson coach Chris Ridolfi said. “We need to find a way to get him the ball on a more consistent basis.”As a team, Harvard...
...movie and don’t stick around for long. Near the film’s end, Swofford tells us, “Every war is different. Every war is the same.” The same apparently goes for war movies. Mendes cops the acid-trip flare lights of “Apocalypse Now” and the jittery artillery-flustered shots from “Saving Private Ryan.” But unlike those movies, “Jarhead” does nothing to romanticize war. It never glamorizes violence—mainly because there is very little...