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...period, Quinnipiac made a bold move and decided to pull its goalie with over four minutes left to play. At the 17:14 mark, sophomore Sarah Wilson finished the scoring by getting the puck up ice and beating a diving defender for an empty-net score. All was not perfect for the Crimson, however. Continuing a trend from Friday’s game against Princeton, the Harvard defense gave up its most shots in the final frame. The Crimson held the Bobcats to just nine chances total on net in the first two periods, and then gave...
...talk of Denver is how the 2008 Democratic Convention, which would be a perfect showcase for this newly left-leaning region, may be thwarted by a local labor leader so passionate he once picketed a Bruce Springsteen concert. That concert was being held in the city's Pepsi Center, and Jim Taylor, head of Local No. 7 International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, thought that the Boss shouldn't perform in an arena that refused to sanction unionized workers. The Pepsi Center still doesn't have union labor - and it is the proposed site of the Democratic Convention...
...Chinese scientists have spent millions of dollars and gone to extraordinary (some might say absurd) lengths to perfect a captive breeding program for the notoriously shy, sex-averse animals. After several decades of frustration, 2006 was a banner year. Using methods ranging from Panda porn movies to electric rectal probes and Viagra (yes, Viagra; and no, it didn't work), captive panda moms produced 34 cubs. That compares to only 9 in 2000 and zero in many years before that. No doubt the program was initially spurred by a desire to protect the giant panda from impending extinction. Following...
...reading period, Lamont Library’s brightly lit, over-heated insides echo with our quiet cursing of all those instructors who had the gall to assign thousands of pages of material, without even pretending to hold us accountable during the term. In short, it’s the perfect time to ask us to fill out course evaluations...
...this era of rampant and unbridled narcissism, you have made the perfect choice. Thanks for the mirror. I just can't take my eyes off me, me, me. BRIAN O'NEIL Alameda, Calif...