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...They] did a great job picking up sticks and boxing guys out for the rebounds. It makes my job a lot easier, and that was a great effort.”For a team whose seven seniors have never before competed for the Beanpot trophy, the Crimson are halfway there to crowning Harvard as the king of Hub hockeyThe only team that stands in its way: Boston College.—Staff writer Robert T. Hamlin can be reached at rhamlin@fas.harvard.edu...
...late-'80s Romania of 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days -a title whose meaning becomes clear only about halfway through the film - the burdens of Soviet-style dictatorship have imposed a gray pall on the country, putting most of the citizenry in a perpetually sour mood. Survival is a glum game of avoiding or appeasing the apparatchiks. The black market, for shampoo and Kent cigarettes, is on each street corner, in every college dormitory. That's where we meet Otilia (Annamaria Marinca), a smart, illusionless student, and her pretty, mopey roommate Gabita (Laura Vasiliu). Gabi is despondent...
...That's especially true in Newcastle right now. The fortunes of its once promising football club - its current standing halfway down the league was bad enough to earn Keegan's predecessor the boot - have fallen in tandem with those of another of the city's institutions: club sponsor Northern Rock. So when the team's players kicked off a run of lackluster results last September, spooked savers across the U.K. began a run of their own on the bank whose roots in Newcastle stretch back 150 years. While the team was losing three of its five games that month, Northern...
...good news is that this 164-ft.-wide chunk of speeding space rock, discovered in November in an ongoing search for potential threats to Earth, won't hit our planet any time in the foreseeable future. The better news - for eager space-watchers - is that the asteroid, currently about halfway between Earth and Mars, has a plausible chance of hitting the Red Planet at the end of January. If it does, astronomers will be treated to an unprecedented sight...
...Nearly a dozen of his potential supporters remained, however. They circled around Thompson's state chairman, Rep. Steve King, the man who just might lift the struggling campaign to a halfway decent finish in the nation's first caucus state. A popular state conservative, King was holding court, as he often does, on the issue of illegal immigration, which he speaks of as a crisis on par with the war in Iraq...