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This winter, the Harvard women’s hockey team saved its best for last. The squad with a penchant for late-game heroics made waves in March, engineering a dramatic run to an ECAC Tournament title and an NCAA Frozen Eight appearance, despite losing its standouts to the quadrennial Winter Olympics.With its season hanging in the balance, the Crimson dispatched visiting Clarkson in a trio of hard-fought, one-goal games to advance out of the conference tournament quarterfinals. Junior Jennifer Sifers clinched the series win with a double-overtime tally in the rubber match...
...fiction. Neither Dan Brown, the author of the book, nor Ron Howard, the director of the film, claim to purvey anything more than that. Fiction. For those who have forgotten, fiction means “pretend,” i.e. not worth hunger-striking over. People with the penchant to boycott, disrupt, or hunger-strike should pick a more meaningful cause. MATTHEW J. HALL...
...recent investigative book Game of Chance. Beyond his links with ACPCO (Atlantic City Probability Co-Operative), whose tentacles may also extend to top players in Yahtzee and Boggle, the authors charge Gilmore with creating diversions so he can steal from the banker and raise suspicion regarding his "statistically improbable" penchant for winning second prize in beauty contests. Adding insult to injury, an ex-girlfriend recently claimed that Gilmore bought her countless diamond rings in the early '90s with money from bank errors in his favor - and never paid the required $75.00 luxury...
...surprising, given their common penchant for intrigue and suspicion, that the rulers of China and the Roman Catholic Church have had a hard time getting along. Beginning five centuries ago, emissaries from the Vatican visited Beijing to seek permission to conduct missionary work in China. During the Qing dynasty they built iron globes and trellises for the Emperor--astronomical instruments that at the time were considered cutting-edge technology. That approach didn't work: a later Emperor banned all Christian missionary activity, sending the clerics packing. He kept the Vatican's gifts, however, on a tower overlooking the thick stone...
...sexual education at the University of North Carolina Government School and took the fall semester off to work as an intern and personal assistant to renowned Democratic political consultant and author, James Carville. Despite her time spent with Carville, however, Buckwalter has yet to master her marketing tactics and penchant for catchy phrases. Even the revamped SFC has failed to garner the amount of attention that now follows HRL. Though, not everyone wants that type of recognition.FETAL FIREPOWER“No publicity is bad publicity was HRL’s old motto,” Grizzle explains. Last semester...