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...would then bounce back from these losses to trounce non-league competitors. For example, after the Crimson had dropped a 3-1 match at Brown and a 3-0 match to Yale in its last weekend of Ivy play, it rebounded to win its next match, a 3-0 romp over non-league Holy Cross. Harvard then went on to dominate Marist and Sacred Heart in two straight 3-0 matches to end the season...

Author: By Cathy Tran, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: W. Volleyball Falters Unexpectedly | 6/7/2001 | See Source »

...right to follow his hunch. Their first date lasted nine hours, with a dinner at the Cheesecake Factory, and then a romp in the Brookstone Store, where both of them played with the foot and back massagers...

Author: By Dana M. Scardigli, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: From Campus Life to Man and Wife | 6/6/2001 | See Source »

...American singer Leonard Cohen once spent a few hours on an unmade hotel bed with a fellow musician. In an explicit song about their romp - clearly punctuated by some of Dr. Meloy's "emphatic exclamations" - Cohen doesn't name the woman, but there are several clues that she was the late great Janis Joplin. Cohen quotes her as saying that she preferred handsome men, but in his case would make an exception. What most impressed him about her was that throughout her short life she shunned those handcuff words, "I need you/I don't need you." That...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: The Ultimate Turn-On | 4/23/2001 | See Source »

What follows is a whirlwind romp through American history as it pertains to the Supreme Court. Rehnquist offers short sketches of influential justices who aren’t as well known, such as Justices Joseph Story, Samuel Miller and Rufus Peckham. His description of Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s failed attempt to “pack” the Supreme Court is especially engaging, and brings to life the drama of the event. Every major case touched upon in high school U.S. history is at least mentioned, and sometimes lavishly described, up through the Warren Court. Marbury v. Madison...

Author: By Amy W. Lai, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Highest Judge in the Land Reveals (Almost?) All About Highest Court | 4/13/2001 | See Source »

...phenomena, this is only round two, and while it's no novelty any more, the "Survivor" model, with new cast members every year, is sound. Second, this was reality TV - think of the material! This wouldn't be a lame clips show, it'd be a fun, gossipy Probstian romp through those 99 hours a week languishing till now on the cutting-room floor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Wrong Time to Pull a Bait-and-Switch | 3/21/2001 | See Source »

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