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...Despite moments of brilliance, such as a 5-minute penalty kill in last Friday night’s nail-biter against Quinnipiac, the power play has been the Crimson’s Achilles heel for much of the season...
...Harvard its first lead of the half, 36-35. Seven minutes later, he faked and drove to the lane and buried a shot to put his team up 54-50. His third basket of the half came with eight minutes to play. Dribbled around for an open look, he nailed a shot as the shot clock ran down to make it 61-58 in the Crimson’s favor.“I can’t say enough about the way Housman has played for us these past few weeks,” Amaker said...
...With sizeable representation for each squad, the crowd buzzed with excitement through each nail-biting finish. Over 30 events crowned an Ivy champion, and Cornell and Princeton emerged as the frontrunners, claiming first and second for men and women. But, on the women’s side the Crimson showed that it is ready to contend with the best, pushing Brown out of the top three...
...flair for the macabre - in one scene, a man who has been tortured by Red Guards commits suicide by driving a nail through his skull - but there's humor in between the horror. Having made a fortune trading scrap, Baldy decides to launch a contest to find the country's most beautiful virgin. The "Inaugural National Virgin Beauty Competition" is a punchy spoof of the Beijing Olympics, complete with salivating sponsors, a city leveled and rebuilt for out-of-town guests and a contestant who wins by sleeping with the judges. Portraits of contemporary China are rarely sharper or more...
...only two losses in the last seven weeks were nail-biters against Hockey East titans No. 5 New Hampshire and No. 6 Boston College. In both, the Crimson arguably outplayed its opponent, only to be foiled first by the Eagles’ excellent goaltender and second by a Wildcat overtime power-play goal...