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...NCAA tournament four of the last five years, Harvard has had desperate trouble right here in its own backyard, at the Beanpot. For the uninitiated, the Beanpot is--and has been for the past 35 years--the annual social event-hockey tournament which determines the unofficial champion of Hub college hockey. Every February, Harvard, Northeastern, Boston College and Boston University meet on consecutive Mondays and have a not-so-friendly get together...
...ground; planes are not allowed to leave until they have a chance to land promptly at their next stop. This prudent procedure caused more than 70,000 holiday travelers around the nation to be delayed last week when fog closed Atlanta's Hartsfield International Airport, a major airline hub. While the air-flow controls may annoy passengers eager to get going on their trips, pilots and controllers prefer it to in-air stacking because it leaves fewer airborne planes to worry about...
...consequence to more modest events. Take possession of the times, they say, in the forms of intimate remembrance. Look at his most famous photograph, of a sailor planting a resolute kiss during the 1945 V-J day celebration in Times Square. A confident grip on the future at the hub of the American universe, a heartfelt smooch at the world's most celebrated intersection of the public and the private -- what other postwar picture at once acknowledged the historical moment, summed up the elation of the victors and even hinted at the baby boom...
From the tower of Memorial Hall to the basement of a nearby church, and from the oldest dormitory to the oldest house in Cambridge, Harvard is the hub of legend and supernatural activity for miles around...
This element of entertainment is not out of place in the Tasty late at night where reality and fantasy mesh together in a surreal atmosphere that pervades the cramped, flourescently-lit quarters of the 70-year old coffee shop overlooking Cambridge's commercial hub...