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Succumbing to the Golden Knights in the opening game of the ECAC quarterfinal conference last Friday, the Harvard men’s hockey team suffered a 3-0 loss to Clarkson at Cheel Arena in Potsdam, N.Y., paving the way for its ultimate 2-0 defeat in the series. “For the most part, we outplayed them,” senior Kevin Du said. “But they’re a very good team, and we gave them too many opportunities, and they capitalized on them.” Entering the match with intensity, the Crimson...
...contained an epic appeal. In an analogy to one of the stories the class had just read, the senior requested accommodation for one or more of the major course assignments because of how they coincided with the deadline of her thesis. The assigned story, “Yvain, the Knight of the Lion,” tells of a knight who must vanquish a giant in time to save a damsel that same day. “The knight has a time management problem,” said Samantha M. Waters ’07, another thesis writer...
...that's disgusting!") As for James Bond, the way Durkin describes Daniel Craig's performance in Casino Royale ("this guy is just hard-arse, and then he actually falls in love and you believe it"), he could be the male equivalent of her Alcina, whose affair with the knight Ruggiero brings her crashing to earth. Skype enables the daily video chats she has with her new husband, rising American tenor Matt Morgan, at their home in Manhattan, where he is performing Frederick in Pirates of Penzance for the New York City Opera. That he won't be seeing her Alcina...
Sources: Age (Australia); Reuters; AP; Knight Ridder Washington Bureau...
Bumblebees defy the physics of flight, helicopter pilots like to say - and so it seems do the whirlybirds flying, and too often crashing, in Iraq recently. The crash of a Marine Sea Knight chopper northwest of Baghdad on Wednesday - killing all seven aboard - marks the fourth time a U.S. military helicopter has gone down in Iraq in just more than two weeks (an additional downing was of a U.S. contractor's chopper). Like clockwork, al-Qaeda-linked Sunni insurgents quickly claimed responsibility for Wednesday's downing, which brought to 28 the number of helicopter fatalities in the five crashes...