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...small knot of students sprawled on the couches and floor cushions in the basement of Thayer Hall last night to discuss the issue of same-sex domestic violence. The event was hosted by Harvard’s Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender, and Supporters Alliance (BGLTSA) as well as the Gay Men’s Domestic Violence Project (GMDVP...
...tenuous 1-0 lead late in the third period when the Bulldogs’ Sarah Tittman found teammate Mandi Schwartz open just outside of the crease. Tittman, working from behind the net, slipped a centering pass through to Schwartz, who knocked the puck past sophomore goaltender Brittany Martin to knot the score...
...shoulders, scoring 12 of the team’s final 14 points in regulation. And his play was accentuated by his biggest shot: down three with a minute to play, Housman dribbled up the floor, stopped at the top of the key, and nailed a game-tying trifecta to knot the score at 56.“I think in Housman’s case that was the next level,” Sullivan said. “It was tremendous what he did tonight, so to see that poise and that confidence, especially in a highly pressurized game...
...involves equipment. About 10 years ago, it dawned on ski- and bootmakers that, because of their build, women need lighter, more flexible skis to carve turns, handle bumps and stave off fatigue, as well as boots that better conform to their soles, heels, ankles and calves. With that, a knot of female designers hit the workbench with one thought: the days of shortening a set of men's skis, slapping some pink paint on them and palming them off on women were over. "We don't design jockstraps, so why should men design women's skis?" jokes Alison Gannett...
Taken separately, the two stories on the front page of the Times of India last Monday at first seem like so much fluff. There was the long-anticipated news that actress and former Miss World Aishwarya Rai and Bollywood actor Abhishek Bachchan will soon tie the knot. Below it, jostling for space with a piece about the Soduku craze sweeping India, was the revelation from a new biography that the father of the nation, Mahatma Gandhi, conducted some sort of love affair with Saraladevi Chaudhuri, the married niece of acclaimed Bengali poet and philosopher Rabindranath Tagore...