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...Crimson sent a player to the box nine times and suffered a sequence of five straight penalties midway through the second period. Harvard coach Ted Donato ’91 cited the hands-off officiating in the Beanpot as a potential cause of the Crimson’s lack of discipline Friday, but offered no excuses.“We spent so much time in the box during the second period, and two things happened: one, it keeps some of our best players off the ice, and two, some of our best players get tired killing the penalties...
...campus was shut down after someone wrote on a dormitory bathroom wall that black students would be killed. Just last week, the university received another threat. In an interview yesterday, Grady, the police chief, declined to specify the nature of that threat, and said it was dismissed for a lack of credibility. Despite campus officials' pronouncements that they have taken significant security steps, for now, it seems little can soothe the uneasiness here...
...appreciate the journey because “it’s all for the sake of arriving here.” Though this album features a more complicated message than the feel-good tunes that populated Johnson’s earlier work, the musical style is quite similar. The lack of variation within “Sleep Through the Static” does create a coherent sound, but risks boring the listener. Large differences between track lengths (“While We Wait” is only one and a half minutes, while others hover between two and five minutes...
...terrible. Throughout, Collett sings in a voice reminiscent of Bob Dylan and occasionally even channels the folk legend through harmonica riffs. But while he’s got the sound and the lilt down, Collett possesses only a tiny fraction of Dylan’s songwriting talent. He seemingly lacks the ability to create anything inventive, interesting, or meaningful. From time to time, Collett throws in a couple of different instruments and marginally varies a tune or two, but overall he fails to break out of the small box he has fashioned for himself. Jason Collett’s lack...
Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has vowed to wage a "decisive battle" against insurgents in Mosul, which U.S. and Iraqi officials say is their last urban haven. But U.S. forces trying to stamp out insurgent networks in that city lack a major boon the surge effort has had elsewhere in Iraq over the past year: Local volunteer fighters...