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...Notre Dame--Keenan (2), Glifillan, Reid, Mahoney, Dusseau, Erickson, DeRiso.; Harvard--Eckert (2), Wojcik, Marvin, Ferrucci, L. Bevilacqua, J. Bevilacqua. A: Notre Dame--Keenan (2), Glifillan, DeRiso. Harvard--Eckert, Wojcik (2), Marvain, J. Bevilacqua. S: Notre Dame--Cade 9; Harvard--Lyng...
...album's high point, however, draws from pure pop: a gospel rendition of Marvin Gaye's love song How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved by You). "'Cause you were better to me/ Than I was to myself/ For me there is you/ There ain't nobody else," Houston sings, as the chorus shadows her words with "I want to stop/ And thank you Jesus." On the song Houston's tart, high voice is strong and slightly rough, and the accompaniment is a warm wave of piano, organ and bass guitar. It's Motown with angels' wings, and gospel...
Browne, who practiced yesterday, will be playing against Notre Dame, and although McCulloch is out at present, sophomore Pat Marvin will be replacing him on faceoff. Marvin has been playing well in this position in the last few games...
...watched this game, you would have seen speed-demon mid-fielder and captain Pat Marvin streak from one end of the field to the other, shaking off Catamounts like mosquitoes and score unassisted. You would have seen goalie Rob Lyng stave off a three-shot assault brilliantly with a couple of seconds to go in the second period. You would also have seen skillful stick smashing checks by stingy Harvard defenders who only allowed three goals and almost no penetration into the crease...
...that the hardest thing for computers is the "simple" stuff. Sure they can play great chess, a game of mechanical rules and finite options. But making small talk--or, indeed, playing Trivial Pursuit--is another matter. So too with recognizing a face or recognizing a joke. As Marvin Minsky of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology likes to say, the biggest challenge is giving machines common sense. To pass the Turing test, you need some of that...