Word: nods
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...copies of his “Journal of Wine Economics” lie on a desk in his darkened office, a nod to what he calls his “little obsession...
...include] the Final Four in Albany—it’s a tough row to hoe. So to get home ice in the first round is an advantage.” NET GAIN The ongoing rotation in net continued Friday night, with senior Justin Tobe getting the nod over freshman Kyle Richter, who had started Harvard’s last 10 contests against ECAC opponents. Richter had been pulled in favor of Tobe midway through a 5-1 loss to Yale one week before and had also surrendered six goals in a 6-6 tie with Brown the following...
...must-see. Why the German? “The Lives of Others,” a gripping drama about the Stasi and the East German citizens they spied on during the Cold War, recently opened to overwhelmingly positive reviews, and received a Best Foreign Film nod. Why the Japanese? Clint Eastwood’s “Letters from Iwo Jima” just might take Oscar’s Best Picture category. It’s an unconventional war film, one subtitled but not quite foreign—Eastwood is just about as American...
What looks like an igloo but acts like an athletic field? Obviously, it’s Harvard’s latest nod to Inuit culture, a giant athletic facility that looks like it’s made of ice. Sitting in the middle of Harvard Stadium, this silver plastic structure, dubbed “the bubble” by its devotees, encloses the stadium’s turf and is part of a general plan to improve the crumbling football stadium. Unfortunately for the those used to the brick charm of the Ivory Tower, the bubble is sadly lacking...
...Harvard’s faculty members are as eager as ever to engage with students who actively seek them out. However, the CUE is espoused as the place of reckoning for hoardes of "delinquent" faculty, professors with early morning office hours are cited for negligence, and student-advocacy hawks nod with knowing smiles at interim President Derek Bok’s dismissal of the Ph.D. as "the only major professional program in the United States that does not prepare students for the activity that they will spend most of their professional lives [pursuing...