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...easiest of victories for the No. 1 Harvard women’s hockey team, but it was an important one. The Crimson (29-1-0) defeated Cornell (12-19-1), 4-2, Saturday evening at Bright Hockey Center to sweep the conference quarterfinal series and punch its ticket to the ECAC semifinals.“It was a battle, we knew it was going to be a battle,” junior forward Sarah Vaillancourt said. “We knew we had to come out hard.”Junior Sarah Wilson scored the game-winner just 15 seconds...
...longtime characters - Soph (for Sophie Tucker), the oldest babe in show business - to supply the raunch dressing. "My tits have fallen so far South they're speakin' Spanish," Soph confesses before telling a few ribald classics. Since this is a family website, I'll withhold the punch lines and tease you with a couple of the setups: "If I'd know you were a virgin I would've been gentler." And "Have you ever been picked up by the fuzz?" (Cappers and rim shots available upon written request...
...that his umbrella worked better as a sail to catch tailwinds than as a shield against the rain. There are plenty of good uses the enterprising umbrella owner might put his or her old weapon towards. They can be retrofitted into reflectors for studio photographers, or made into makeshift punch bowls...
...progress. Officers arrived and spoke to the reporting party who stated that when they attempted to sit down at a table they were threatened by another individual. The reporting party states that the individual then kicked them and struck them in the knee. The individual then threatened to punch the reporting party. The reporting party said that they did not want to pursue the matter criminally. Officers located the individual who had an active no trespass warning for all of Harvard University property. Shea Roberts, 59, was then placed under arrest...
...club, the writing becomes far too blunt for the complex emotional situation. In this way, Beane’s words at times threatens to overwhelm his plot. While Diane, who seems to be made purely of plastic, venom, and dynamite, can rhapsodize and finish off with an expletive-filled punch line, the same sort of writing comes off as glib in the mouths of more earthy characters like Mitchell or Alex. The real success in this method of punchy writing is Ellen, whose inexhaustible supply of sarcastic retorts only makes her helplessness starker and ultimately moving.Beane...