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SCHENECTADY, NY--One of Harvard men's hockey coach Ronn Tomassoni's favorite little proverbs states that the season is not a sprint, but a marathon. Entering last Friday with just nine games left on the schedule and tied for the final ECAC playoff spot with Dartmouth, that no longer is true--the sprint has begun...
Nothing shocks him. Not the rookie hazing, not the dusk-'til-dawn NFL marathon, not Randy Moss' tattoos and definitely not success. Minnesota Vikings offensive lineman Matt Birk '98 has grown satisfyingly accustomed to these things--especially the last. Having won 24 of his last 27 football games dating back to Harvard's 1997 Ivy League Championship season, Birk can afford...
...know how difficult it is, how your thesis is like a long-running mental marathon in which you read, write and read some more. You know how annoying the line of inquiries concerning your thesis becomes, how you would like to continue in your state of denial for at least a little while longer, remaining peacefully oblivious to the long road of writing ahead. This is not a paper you crank out the night before, not, at least, if you want to stay sane...
...hockey lockout included a period from Dec. 6-Jan. 7 in which no talks were held. The sides then made "final" offers and "final-final" offers before a marathon negotiating session settled...
This past Thursday, Independent Prosecutor Kenneth W. Starr spent 12 hours testifying before the House Judiciary Committee. After a lengthy opening statement, which reiterated the charges against the President laid out in Starr's written referral to Congress, the embattled prosecutor faced a marathon interrogation at the hands of the committee members...