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...game, including an anemic 28 percent in the first half. And consider that Dudley, the Ivy's rebounding and blocked shot leader (as well as third leading scorer) was on all night, eventually pumping in 22 points while pulling down 11 rebounds. And consider that the Crimson played below par from the charity stripe, sinking just 70 percent of its free throws (in comparison to its 74 percent season average...
...hours with Kafka's In the Penal Colony and Orwell's dystopian visions. Walker's central figure, a nameless public relations man for a major corporation, is getting stale. The company packs him off for behavioral conditioning. Walker is not much on acronyms: the victim is made to undergo PAR--Positive Attitudinal Reinforcement--and SAD--Supervisory Aptitude Development. But the forced seminars ring with comic truths: the victim is considered a pariah because of his indifference to football and "masculine science," i.e., driveway resurfacing. He has yet to master doodah, the company version of gobbledygook, and he is too easily...
Sheehan attributed the lopsided results to "injuries, sickness, and a few sub-par performances," while Co-Captain Doug Boyd cited Harvard's early-morning road trip...
Rejecting the logic of Stailone's enemies, I hold the opposite position. Stallone is indeed an exemplar par excellence of the dominant values of the Harvard Establishment. What is remarkable is that he was not so honored years earlier...
...Bruins. But that victory came when starting point guard Kerry Kelly (last year's Ivy assist leader) was out with an injury and when former Ivy Player of the Year Michelle Smith--recipient of Ivy Player of the Week Honors the past two weeks--was not playing up to par...