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Overall: B+. Well, there it is. Harvard knows what it has to improve upon starting February 3, and if it can, you'd still have to relish a bet on the Crimson to wreak some havoc in Lake Placid and beyond come the stretch run. A slow start can be all but forgotten as the games pile up--and the Crimson can't wait for those games to come...
Nope, sorry. This year's Crimson journey, ostensibly toward Lake Placid, Worcester and Providence, should be officially condemned by the Surgeon General as "hazardous to your health." As in, the ulcer-prone and the faint of heart should get off the bus sooner, rather than later...
...maybe this wasn't Lake Placid...
Seeking to undermine Israeli-Arab peacemaking, a suicide bomber from the Hamas organization of Palestinian Islamic militants detonated a package of tnt on a crowded bus in normally placid Tel Aviv; 21 people were killed. The especially grisly suicide attack came just days after the bloody denouement of a Hamas kidnapping in which two Israeli soldiers and three Palestinians died. Rabin vowed to crack down on Hamas suspects and urged Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat to do the same...
...Simpson may be far more distraught than his placid -- almost bored -- expression under Court TV's headlamp shows. On Wednesday, defense attorney Johnnie Cochran asked Ito to let his client speak briefly about whether he could get a fair trial. Simpson started talking about the infamous June 17 low-speed chase on a Los Angeles freeway in which he, riding in a white Ford Bronco, was trailed by several squad cars from the Los Angeles police. Growing increasingly agitated, Simpson reportedly said: "Mrs. Clark -- Ms. Clark -- said I was trying to run . . . Everyone knows that I called my father...