Word: northeastern
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...best hockey lies ahead as long as its players can maintain focus and confidence.Harvard need not wait long to begin correcting its course, because Boston’s most anticipated college hockey tradition, the venerable Beanpot tournament, begins on Monday night at the TD Bank North Garden against Northeastern. Though the game is only an exhibition, the Crimson’s players are hungry to secure bragging rights as the best college hockey team in the Hub.“There isn’t a single guy in the room that’s played in the championship game...
...men’s squad finished fourth, scoring 108 points, narrowly behind Boston College’s 111. BU was second with 130, and Northeastern took the men’s title with 172 points...
Zhou Shuguang's brief but spectacular career as China's first roving citizen reporter on the Internet ended abruptly last December after he was punched in the throat by an angry policeman in the northeastern city of Shenyang. Zhou's offense: investigating a bizarre pyramid scheme involving ants and aphrodisiacs. The assault took place during a short stint in jail, after which plainclothes cops escorted Zhou to the airport and put him on a plane home, with dire warnings about what would happen to him if he returned. The small, bespectacled 26-year-old took heed. "I will keep silent...
...impact is already visible in some smaller cities and rural parts of the country, where violent crime has been on the uptick in recent years. Others say a more simple formula is behind it. "What goes up comes down," said James Alan Fox, a leading criminologist at Northeastern University in Boston. "But in big cities, there was more room to drop, and in small cities there was more room to go up. And that may be what we're seeing here." Wherever there's a 20% spike, as Boston saw not long ago, he says, there's "a better than...
...among those willing to take a shot at forecasting forward is Fox, of Northeastern, and his outlook isn't rosy: "We've plateaued," Fox says. "There is an issue of young black males, by and against. And if we ignore that in our celebration of success, it could get worse, and what happened in the late 1980s could happen again. You don't solve the crime problem. You control it. And if you start getting complacent, thinking the bad old days won't return, that's exactly when you're most vulnerable...