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Noeth tagged Dominic Moore and older brother Steve for two 10-minute misconducts, wrongfully whistling Dominic for diving in the first period, and nailing Steve for inappropriate language in the third period. Given Noeth's penchant for poor calls, it came as a surprise that eldest brother Mark was not escorted to the sin bin to give Noeth the Moore misconduct-hatrick...

Author: By Jennie L. Sullivan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 867-5309: Wacky Weekend | 2/22/2000 | See Source »

Epps--a man with a penchant for bow ties and Harvard history--compares the difficult task of loosening his bonds to the College with "stepping out of a painting that you just finished...

Author: By Joyce K. Mcintyre, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Memoirs in the Works, Epps Turns a New Page | 2/14/2000 | See Source »

Noting his penchant for taking breaks, Schneider said she thought Seton wasn't cut out for grill work...

Author: By Parker R. Conrad, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Order Up: Seton Trades The Gavel For a Spatula | 2/14/2000 | See Source »

...make matters worse, said Malone, financial backers like the Collegiate Network and the Heritage Foundation--who give conservative journals start-up money--stopped contributing funds. And Peninsula, with its penchant for radical views, never attracted many advertisers...

Author: By David C. Newman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: What Do a Kansas City School Teacher And a Gay Grad Student Have in Common? They're Both Former Editors of Peninsula | 2/2/2000 | See Source »

...company limits its data to such fundamentals as hair and eye color, height and ethnic classification, which, says Schou, is the main difference from what he calls the "couture style" U.S. system of merchandising sperm. He is critical of the U.S. reliance on "positive eugenics," his term for the penchant for selecting donors based on detailed genetic, physical and psychological profiles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Banking On Sperm | 1/24/2000 | See Source »

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