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...bleed Crimson,” she said. “I love the kind of student athletes I get here.” Going into the game, however, such records were a complete afterthought. Harvard went into the weekend knowing that with two wins it would retain its Ivy League title and earn a spot in the NCAA tournament. A large 24-point victory over lowly Brown in Cambridge last month gave the Crimson plenty of confidence going into Friday’s matchup. But the Bears were looking to spoil the party. Putting pressure on the ball handlers, Brown...
...play particularly well, but by nine p.m., the team was ecstatic. Not only did the Crimson (16-9, 9-2 Ivy) come out with a 71-70 win in a nail-biter at Lavietes Pavilion, but Dartmouth also beat league leader Cornell, placing Harvard in pole position to retain its Ivy League crown.Defense and rebounding were the keys for the Crimson in what turned out to be an extremely tough battle against the Lions (9-16, 6-5).“It wasn’t our best,” Harvard coach Kathy Delaney-Smith said...
Banks writes space opera on the grand scale: he measures time in eons, space in light-years, tragedies in gigadeaths. His human players strut and fret on that vast stage, struggling to retain a sense of purpose. "Welcome to the future," thinks Djan Seriy bitterly. "All our tragedies and triumphs, our lives and deaths, our shames and joys are just stuffing for your emptiness." She could just as well have said, "Welcome to the present...
...onto the summers of his adolescence. Clara Schuler, a shy and standoffish teenage girl, gains short-lived popularity in the eponymous “Dangerous Laughter.” She is gifted at hysterical laughter, a talent appreciated by her bored and entertainment-seeking classmates. In an attempt to retain this fading popularity, she laughs herself to death in front of the narrator’s eyes, “inviting [him] to follow her to the farthest and most questionable regions of laughter, where laughter no longer bore any relation to earthly things and, sufficient to itself, soared above...
...fact that it is coming at a time when the team needs this sort of play from her the most. Following a blowout loss to Cornell, Harvard finds itself in second-place in the Ivy standings, and most likely will have to run the table in order to retain its title...