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...Knotted up at 2-2 three minutes into overtime, the No. 1 Harvard women’s hockey team thought it had put the game away.Junior defenseman Kati Vaughn launched a slapshot from the blue line that soared through traffic and into the back of the net. The red lamp lit up and the Crimson spilled the ice to celebrate its championship victory.But the referees disagreed, pulling back the goal after ruling that it had been deflected in by a high stick in front of the net.“We don’t know what the tape will...

Author: By Kate Leist, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: NOTEBOOK: Harvard Wins ‘Twice’ in Overtime | 3/10/2008 | See Source »

...premised on that insight that Virginia Woolf expressed so well in A Room of One’s Own. Woolf claimed that “a good dinner is of great importance to good talk. One cannot think well… if one has not dined well. The lamp in the spine does not light on beef and prunes.” As anyone who seeks to work at the pace set by the world economy knows all too well, this isn’t actually true. Harvard has long falsified this particular insight: We all know that...

Author: By Alexander Bevilacqua | Title: The Lamp in the Spine | 3/5/2008 | See Source »

...response to Friday’s larceny, residents of Eliot E-51 revealed one of the missing Adams House rugs, hanging it out of their window overlooking the courtyard—equipped for nighttime viewing with a clipped desk lamp...

Author: By Peter F. Zhu, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Feud Strips Eliot of Rugs | 3/3/2008 | See Source »

When A.J. Longmaid spent his boyhood summers on Spectacle Island, a private 4.5-acre (1.8 hectare) refuge off the coast of Bar Harbor, Maine, his family had no electricity or pressurized water. He read by kerosene lamp and showered by pouring a bucket of freezing water over his head. Today Longmaid, 30, not only has hot showers and electric power on the island but also can make cell-phone calls, watch television and surf the Net via satellite. "People don't even realize they aren't connected to the mainland when they're here because everything is the same," says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Your Own Private Island | 2/29/2008 | See Source »

...flurry of activity at Harvard's right goal post, and the lamp lights. 5-3 Eagles. Matt Lombardi tried a wraparound, then tried to stuff in his own rebound, then everyone crashed the net and the puck found its way in. Credit Andrew Orpik with the goal for coming up and forcing it in. They reviewed it, but the goal stands...

Author: By Crimson Sports Staff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: CRIMSON LIVE: Beanpot Final | 2/11/2008 | See Source »

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