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...Haven Coliseum for a game that set the current mark. “This is a good team,” Donato said. “It’s going to be an emotional game, a big game for them, and we’d prefer that they save their first win celebration in the ECAC for another night.” It won’t be easy, though. The Bobcats have won six straight entering tonight’s contest, and they are led by junior Reid Cashman, a Hobey Baker finalist who notched 45 points from...
...round match-up with Becky K, a sul- try brunette from Walden University in Colorado. Jay J. Ku ’05, her boyfriend, takes the loss well. “I like steak,” he says, “but I know a lot of guys prefer greasy cheeseburgers, and I guess in this case greasy cheeseburgers won out.” Shoemaker also realized that by entering a contest of this nature, on a site frequented by so many horny college guys, she would certainly earn some unusual attention from the opposite...
...dust, these two houses were redeemed due to their apparent historic significance to the city of Cambridge. Graduate housing is slated to replace them in 2007. Leverett residents wonder why the gray and blue buildings were protected; even Harvard’s Construction Mitigation Manager Ed Leflore would have preferred demolition over preservation. “We’d prefer not to move it—it’s easier to just stick a big bulldozer in there,” he says. More noise was also the last thing some residents wanted. Since they arrived in September...
...10th most-trafficked site on the Internet, according to Hughes. Zuckerberg spent the morning meeting with computer science professors for help recruiting engineers straight out of college. “The professors can identify who the smart students are,” he said, adding that he would prefer to hire younger engineers rather than programming veterans. “The job lends itself to people with raw intelligence rather than industry experience. And if you’re coming out of college, you have a really good idea of what facebook is.” Zuckerberg said...
...candidate," such as Harriet Miers, who has little record; a thoughtful and open-minded conservative; or a doctrinaire or "instrumental" conservative who has an agenda to enact. "We are going to have a conservative on the court-that's a given-so between those three choices I would much prefer having someone who is intelligent, open-minded and doesn't approach things knowing the result they want to come away with." Concludes Stein: "If the President has to appoint a conservative to the Supreme Court, which is his right, I would want it to be someone like [Alito...