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...notched a final-minute game-tying goal on the road against the Golden Knights and followed with a last-second score to earn the victory and home ice for the ECAC quarterfinals, Clarkson responded to another late Harvard equalizer with a sudden-death game-winner of its own to prevail, 2-1, and push the playoff series to a decisive third game. Katie Morrison put home a rebound past senior netminder Ali Boe with 29 seconds left in the first overtime period to ensure a rubber match and dash the hopes of a sweep by host Harvard...
...that even if Dewey’s beliefs are wrong, he shouldn’t be attacked for them. Like every other member of the Harvard community, Dewey should be able to express unpopular beliefs without being yelled at from the pages of The Crimson. Civility must prevail...
...Hopefully the same attitude won’t prevail in the Best Documentary category, where the current favorites are those pesky penguins. If all the voters carefully watch the nominees, they will undoubtedly conclude that the byzantine tale of Nile perch and encroaching globalization in “Darwin’s Nightmare”—the best film...
...involved in the poll, guesses that three out of 10 churches founded today are simple and that their individual odds for survival are better than those of the other seven. House churches are not known for denominational loyalty. That doesn't bother Karr, however. "I want the denomination to prevail," he says, "but I have an agenda that supersedes that: the Kingdom of God at large." (See 10 surprising facts about the world's oldest Bible...
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE The Palestinian Paradise Now was a fave for Foreign Film, until Hamas won. Go with South Africa's Tsotsi, kind of an all-black Crash that's just tough, sentimental and manipulative enough to prevail...