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...We’re excited about the win,” Donato said. “It was a good hard-fought battle. We knew it was going to be a game that was going to be very tight and a lot of momentum changes...
...good hockey game,” Crimson coach Katey Stone said. “Our kids played with a lot of heart and grit...We didn’t have as much energy as we normally do but we fought through it.” With the game tied at one and only three minutes left in the third period, senior forward Sarah Wilson swooped in to save the day for Harvard. After Raiders goalie Kimberly Sass turned away a shot by sophomore center Anna McDonald, Wilson hammered the rebound under Sass and into the net to give the Crimson...
...creates an atmosphere that engenders this kind of abuse—allowing homophobia to grow in what is supposedly a safe space. This is especially disappointing considering past efforts to guarantee a workplace free of verbal harassment and intimidation at Harvard. In the late 1980s, Harvard dining-hall workers fought to gain strong anti-discrimination language in their contracts. This progressive victory in the 1980s should have been enough to ensure that no Harvard student or employee is ever called, for instance, a lesbian in an insulting way without consequences for the offender. Yet clearly the language was not strong...
...archaeologist's recent find offers a reminder that chemical weapons are nothing new - in fact, they are nearly 2,000 years old. Simon James, a researcher at the University of Leicester in the U.K., claims to have found the first physical evidence of chemical weaponry, dating from a battle fought in A.D. 256 at an ancient Roman fortress. James concluded that 20 Roman soldiers unearthed beneath the town's ramparts did not die of war wounds, as previous archaeologists had assumed, but from poison...
...latest book, “Lark and Termite,” opens with an epigram from William Faulkner’s “The Sound and the Fury.” “Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.” It is a fitting borrowing in a number of ways—both books use the time span of four key days to piece together the meaning of family...