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...Crimson's reach and like the come from behind campaign the hockey team staged two years ago. Harvard's battle to the top has been unanticipated. The fact that the cagers are in a three way tie for the first with just one weekend left could be called a pleasant surprise. But that would be a gross understatement...
Zetra, the skating arena in Sarajevo, is a pleasant enough place. Set in a valley just below the stadium where the Olympic flame burns, it spreads like the curved wing of a dove .... stretched out over the snow. Inside, there are comfortable wooden seats, polite ushers and concession stands that sell chocolate and local brandy, a better fix against a winter night than popcorn and beer. Yet to hear of the doings in the figure-skating competition that took place in this outwardly cheerful spot last week was to confuse sport with war dispatches. There were hints of dark intrigue...
...Alpine skier from sub-Sahara Africa who went on from water skiing after moving to Paris, was standing outside on the bitterest day of the Games eating two ice-cream cones at once. As the one-man Olympic team from Senegal, he suffers people's curiosity with a pleasant shrug. "I'm black and I'm a ski racer and I'm Senegalese and I'm tall, but I wish that I could just be a ski racer. I'm crazy about the downhill," he said. "It's a great feeling." Gueye finished...
...some students it's more a matter of taste. "It's easier and more pleasant for me just to stock the refrigerator and then be able to eat when and what I want." said Holly A. Swartz '85 who will be working on her main stage production of Love Comedy over the spring break. "It'll probably cost about the same but not eating in the dining hall makes it seem more like vacation," she added...
...after a pleasant chat with McLaughlin at the half led to a Crimson surge that put Harvard on top by as many as 21, a not-so-pleasant performance from the Crimson bench put the Engineers within striking distance with just a minute left to play...