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...hard-hitting, physical, and sometimes wild battle for the Harvard men’s hockey team (7-14-4, 7-7-4 ECAC) against its historical foe, No. 6 Cornell (15-6-4, 10-5-3, ECAC).The rivalry between the two teams is one of the oldest in intercollegiate competition, dating back to 1910. With bragging rights and crucial league points on the line, it was no surprise that both teams came onto the ice with their sticks swinging, ready to play. The Crimson and the Big Red combined for 28 minutes in the box, taking penalties for roughing...
Senator Judd Gregg ended his courtship with President Obama by resorting to one of the oldest lines in the book. "It's not about them," the New Hampshire fiscal conservative announced Thursday, describing the White House team. "It's about my own sense of who I am." All at once, politicos all over Washington had the same reaction: Yeah, right...
...awareness of their heritage is one of the school's biggest selling points. "I take pride in it that African Americans who built this school at this time were going through such a hard struggle," says freshman Jamal Lewis, 19, standing a few paces from Hill Hall, the oldest building on campus, erected in 1901 by some of Savannah State's first students. If the schools were to merge, says Telena Johnson, 24, "I definitely would feel like I was being robbed...
...Craig carried his energy wherever he went, taking his vocal talent to the stage as a member of the Krokodiloes, Harvard’s oldest all-male acappella group. “I remember when he tried out at the time, he had this most angelic face, and we all just loved his voice,” says Kenneth M. Kastleman ’66, who sang with Craig. “He was certainly the most handsome of us. Apologies to the rest of the Kroks of that...
...Kong, a metropolis relatively free of violent crime, has been shocked by a spike in murders of prostitutes including three sex workers who were killed in their apartments in January. The rising death toll is forcing the city's conservative leaders to consider how members of the world's oldest profession might be better protected under Hong Kong law. (Read about Amsterdam's drive to clean up its red light district...