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...this season. First at Holy Cross, when the Crimson was down 20-14 at the half only to beat the Crusaders convincingly 31-21, and then just two weeks ago when Harvard once again overcame an early deficit against the Bears and won a thrilling 38-35 double-overtime marathon. Those teams had the swagger. The team that took the field on Saturday in Ithaca did not. This isn’t the responsibility of any individual. You certainly can’t pin it on sophomore quarterback Liam O’Hagan. After all, he was the architect...
...would like to say we have passed the saturation point on procedurals. But I wouldn't bet my pocket change on it. America is addicted to Amber Alerts and Laci Peterson--type cases, and every cable marathon of lost-child and missing-white-woman coverage is free advertising for Close to Home. This TV season has been notable for ever more gruesome cop shows (Wanted, Killer Instinct) with sensationalistic stories about brutalized women and children. Close to Home, whose early episodes involve a kidnapped young woman and doe-eyed kids on the witness stand, is a softer, more accessible...
...naughty ones. Also during the holidays, all of Rome traipses from one church to another to view the ancient Nativity crches. The oldest is believed to be the 13th century crche of Arnolfo di Cambio, in the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore. For the truly devout, the marathon midnight Mass at St. Peter's Basilica is free, but reservations are required (they can be made...
...that the talks, expected to last at least nine years, would be premised on the "shared objective" of "accession." Vienna wanted language that could have allowed talks to end in something less than full membership for Turkey, "a privileged partnership," for instance. But after holding that line through a marathon meeting on Sunday (EU decisions on enlargement require unanimity), Austrian Foreign Minister Ursula Plassnik finally gave in on Monday to pressure from her 24 EU counterparts and from U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice...
...Their plan is to make it a group effort in preparation for the event, despite the fact that a marathon is an individualistic sport,” said Conroy, who is also a Crimson editor. “The goal is to have people of all different levels fund-raising together...