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...combination of things," says Stern. "First, the professional heckler, who feels empowered to spend the entire game directing his attention to disturbing the other team at any decibel level, at any vocabulary. Then, an ongoing permissiveness that runs the gamut from college kids who don't wear shirts and paint their faces and think that liberates them to say anything, to NBA fans who use language that is not suitable to family occasions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Fans and Players and Playing So Rough | 12/17/2004 | See Source »

Though cloak dry cleaning bills remain a headache, Tusk has more important things on his mind. Like: God. This is something Heller has learned through HRSFA. One of the group’s favorite annual events is the Hunt, a fall fete where members take off their clothes, paint themselves blue and chase down a (consenting) freshman—known as the “stag”—in a parody of a Celtic hunting ritual...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cape Boy No Longer Interested in Capes | 12/16/2004 | See Source »

Captain Reka Cserny made her return after missing Saturday’s game with an ankle injury. While missing only one of six attempts from the line, Cserny sank only four of 13 in the paint and was unsuccessful in all three of her three-point tries. However, it was a mental, not physical, affliction to which Harvard coach Kathy Delaney-Smith attributed Reka’s uncharacteristic performance...

Author: By Courtney M. Petrouski, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: This Time, Harvard Can't Top Terriers | 12/15/2004 | See Source »

Just five kilometers from Bougainville's former provincial capital of Arawa, a rusting sign sprouts from the roadside jungle. "restricted," it reads in washed-out blood-red letters. "No Go Zone by order of the Mekamui government." The paint may be faded, but the warning is current. Beyond it, a jumble of petrol drums, sticks and signs blocks the narrow bitumen strip, and in the shadows a group of young men stand guard. For most people, Morgan Junction is as close as they dare come to the island's forbidden zone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jungle Fever | 12/14/2004 | See Source »

...Dawson’s statistics paint a far different picture. His sheer consistency puts him a cut above any other back in the Ivy League. He ran for over 100 yards in seven of the Crimson’s ten contests and scored at least one touchdown in nine games. He was the most consistent scoring threat in the Ivies if not in all of Division...

Author: By David H. Stearns, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Dawson Named All-American | 12/13/2004 | See Source »

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