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Please, can we declare an end to the year of the literary gotcha? Because I?m fresh out of outrage. Yes, I cared that James Frey exaggerated or fabricated parts of his memoir A Million Little Pieces. I sort of cared that Kaavya Viswanathan borrowed bits of her young adult novel (the title of which is too long to bother typing) from other young adult novels. I even sort of tried to care that J.T. Leroy, the author of assorted literary works that almost nobody besides Courtney Love had read, was himself fabricated by a San Francisco couple looking...
...parallel with the revolutionary effect the 45 r.p.m. single had on popular culture in the '60s. "It suddenly liberated music because people only had to have one good idea," he says. "And it only had to to last 2 1/2 minutes." Thoughts like this seem to flush Eno with fresh enthusiasm and optimism that the world is catching on to his ideas. The randomness, uncertainty and unknowability he explores in his art are, he says, demonstrated daily in life by the failure of political planners and strategists to predict, let alone solve, the world's problems or to avoid wars...
...college level, a coach has no incentive to play anybody except those who he thinks give his team the best chance to win. With no dollars or TV contracts on the line, we saw the purest of intentions acting when Crimson coach Tim Murphy sent O’Hagan, fresh off serving a five-game suspension for an undisclosed discretion, into Harvard’s Week 6 game against Princeton. It was to provide “a spark” and a different dimension to the offense, Murphy said.And even when a coach makes the change for the right...
...spot in the league from the No. 8 Tigers (8-2-2, 8-2-1 ECAC).Harvard returns to action next Friday and Saturday at the Bright Hockey Center against No. 10 Minnesota-Duluth to kickoff a set of five non-conference games. The Bulldogs, who are fresh off an upset over top-ranked Wisconsin, will provide a good test for the Crimson.HARVARD 5, PRINCETON 0Harvard received a bit of help in its effort to knock Princeton from the top when Ivy league rival Dartmouth spoiled the Tigers’ unbeaten campaign with a 6-3 win Friday night...
...turnovers to outscore the Mountain Hawks 21-14 on points off turnovers...Even down low, where Lehigh outscored its opponents 42-18 in the three games prior to Saturday, the Crimson emerged on top, outscoring the Mountain Hawks 34-30 in the paint...Harvard’s bench injected fresh vigor into the game, as the reserves scored 24 points while giving the starters a chance to regain their energy. Junior forward Brad Unger exemplified this strong bench play, as his 11 points equaled his career-high, set last year in a win against Albany...