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Colgate (1-3-0, 0-0-0 ECAC) is many people's pick to win the conference. It reached the semifinals of the ECAC Tournament in Lake Placid last season, and it returns many experienced veterans. Heading up the list of returnees is forward Michael Harder (one goal, four assists), who was named to the all-ECAC preseason team...
...local physician and physician's assistant, charging trespass, false arrest and assault, among other things. The case, which will be heard in federal court in Lincoln, Nebraska, as early as the end of the year, has suddenly thrust Blair, a city of 7,250 that is so placid that mayoral candidates have run unopposed for the past 12 years, deep into the rancorous national debate over who has a right to influence a pregnant woman's decision to get an abortion...
...mood of this adaptation of Whitney Otto's novel by writer Jane Anderson and director Jocelyn Moorhouse is sweetly subversive. It usefully insists that beneath the placid surface of middle-class life strong currents rush and eddy, carrying everyone in directions utterly unpredictable when they are young and sure of themselves. And if it doesn't provide fully developed roles for them, it does evenhandedly offer a lot of underutilized actresses (among them Jean Simmons, Lois Smith and Kate Nelligan and the poet Maya Angelou) a moment or two to remind us how good they...
...also delighted by the jurors' reactions. Ordinarily dazed and unreadable, they came to life last week. Upon hearing Fuhrman's ugly language, several jurors recoiled and scribbled furiously in their notebooks. Many of the nine African-American jurors looked enraged, while a white woman in the second row, usually placid, appeared upset...
March 8-10, 15-16, 22-23, 28-30: ECAC and NCAA Tournaments men's hockey tournaments. Harvard usually hosts an ECAC series before the ECAC Final Four at Lake Placid. The Crimson reached the NCAA Final Four...