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...women's basketball team made easy work of its first opponent this weekend but found trouble against the second. After a 69-42 blowout win over Columbia on Friday night, the Crimson lost a last second nail biter to the Big Red, 75-73, on Saturday...

Author: By Kathryn J. Hodel, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: After Two Quick Starts, W. Basketball Splits the Weekend | 3/5/2001 | See Source »

...nifty device too, because it reminds you of the show's discomfiting ambiguity. You're rooting for a murderer as Feds try to nail him. (Don't leave the house, you idiots! Goddamnit, Carmela, drive faster! Catch them in the act!) And then you remember just who and what it is you're cheering for. In the second episode (airing back-to-back with the first), Tony finds Meadow in the living room watching a video (the mob movie "Public Enemy") for homework with Noah Tannenbaum, a half-black, half-Jewish guy from her dorm; Tony pulls Noah aside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 'The Sopranos,' Round 3: Journey to the Center of Tony's Mind | 3/2/2001 | See Source »

Feeling in touch with the big-wigs on campus after their up-close-and-personal class, your parents might want to head over to the Dean's Welcome. Here, too, the Junior Parents Weekend Committee has hit the nail on the head. At this event your parents will be welcomed to Harvard in the same way that you were two-and-a-half years ago--by a debonair administrator who will crack a few jokes, flash a toothy smile, assure your parents that the administration cares very much about undergraduates and then disappear for the rest of the weekend. Your...

Author: By Lauren E. Baer, | Title: The Unofficial Guide to Junior Parents Weekend | 2/28/2001 | See Source »

Instead, the Elis capitalized on the entire Crimson squad's anemic shooting and used a 22-9 run in the second half to turn the game from a nail-biter to a snoozer...

Author: By Rahul Rohatgi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Title Hopes Fade as M. Basketball Loses to Yale and Brown | 2/20/2001 | See Source »

...steady balance of nail-biting victories and thorough obliterations that propelled Harvard to the winner's circle. Early in the final round, No. 3 seed Carlin Wing found herself in a 2-0 hole to Samantha Lewins before finding her stroke and winning the final three games, including the last two by 9-2 margins. Ella Witcher also rebounded from an early deficit to score a four-game win over Mollie Anderson...

Author: By Jared R. Small, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: W. Squash Wins National Championship | 2/19/2001 | See Source »

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