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Overconfidence didn't hurt Cornell through two periods, and the Big Red was up 4-2 after 31 seconds of the third period. The Crimson came back to force overtime, and Parrot's backhanded in a rebound to end it at 2:20 of the extra period...
...credit. Wetland suspended three of his regulars for fighting in the Beanpot final against B.U. As a result, two of the four Harvard defensemen who skated against Cornell had never before played for the varsity. Partly because of that, Cornell "came in probably a little overconfident," says Kent parrot...
...guys require additional work, partly because most readers cannot readily identify with gutter smarts but mostly because embellishing evil is fun. Teddy Magyk, the creep who stalks Mora from the Caribbean to the Jersey shore, lives with his mother in Margate, in a house done up in a parrot motif. One of his specialties is robbing and raping elderly women. He is between jail sentences and is bent on killing his arresting officer. Who is, of course, Lieut. Mora...
With the increase in the drinking age fast approaching, Love and Castagno are about to diversify. They have bought the defunel Blue Parrot upstairs of the Filly, and intend to reopen it as a traditional New England Fish House. "The students are great, but there's a completely different group of people here" that they hope to attract, says Love...
...figure out that Feynman's sportive style masks serious content. He defines science as "an understanding of the behavior of nature," and provides numerous examples of how that understanding is thwarted. As a guest lecturer in Rio de Janeiro, he discovered that nearly all his students could parrot their lessons but could not explain what they meant. The rote method was obviously an unscientific way of teaching science. Years later, as a member of a California state board of education curriculum committee, Feynman was appalled by the quality of math textbooks he was asked to review. His expert opinion: "Everything...