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...Crimson (5-8, 2-4 Ivy) lost a difficult 11-9 tug-of-war battle to the University of New Hampshire yesterday afternoon in Durham, New Hampshire. Harvard, a relatively young team that has struggled all year to find a cohesive and aggressive offense, was thwarted in its quest for victory by the sands of time...
MOYERS: Is it fair to say, in effect, that Star Wars is your own spiritual quest...
...teach the Americans about hockey and break his own country's heart. (A clearly troubled Canadian House leader complained that "the Edmonton Oilers without Wayne Gretzky is like Wheel of Fortune without Vanna White.") Gretzky moved again to St. Louis, Mo., and then to New York, but his quest for another Cup would not be fulfilled. The New York Rangers, a mess of a club, have been unable to commit to winning, so Gretzky decided to cut the tragedy short before people started to walk out of the theater...
Erica L. Brooks '99 and Eleanor M. Pries '99are combining a quest for a physical challengewith a desire to help others. The first-timemarathoners have each raised $1,500 for the RedCross...
...search--the quest--informs Greek myths ("We have Orpheus and Morpheus in the film," says Larry) as well as Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: "It's a story about consciousness," says Larry, "a child's perception of an adult's world. The Matrix is about the birth and evolution of consciousness. It starts off crazy, then things start to make sense." It can also be read as a variant on Gibson's Neuromancer, the 1986 cyberpunk classic about a computer cowboy on the run. "It'd be near impossible to make a movie out of that," says Larry. "We knew...