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...atrocious secondary (111th in pass defense out of 116 teams in division I-AA), things will inevitably break down. When they do, Polhemus will elude the rush unlike any quarterback Harvard has faced, and find the Ancient Eight’s best pair of receivers to reveal the Crimson scheme for exactly what it is: a bad comb-over. Murphy would have seen it on the game tape from last week, except Jack Siedlecki bungled away a sure victory by opting repeatedly—and gutlessly—to run McLeod into a wall of eight or nine defenders throughout...
Plush, comfortable couches and fluffy floor cushions. A tastefully mellow color scheme. On the television, that feminist-lite icon of the 1990s, “Sabrina the Teenage Witch.”Welcome to the Harvard College Women’s Center, whose current offerings—free photocopying for student organizations and free coffee—complement the mild and pleasant decor. Indeed, students of all persuasions enjoy the comfortable atmosphere.Rafael A.P. Miranda ’09 goes to the Center every Friday to work on organic chemistry problem sets, unfazed by its gendered name...
Indeed, the Crimson looked to Cusworth on most of its first-half possessions, leading to 14 points from the big man in the opening frame. The Terriers, on the other hand, created open three-pointers with a unique offensive scheme...
...play. “My Name is Rachel Corrie” may provide a moving look at the personal diaries of a blindly idealistic young girl, but it ignores the fact that Corrie’s death was simply a tragic accident that was inherently meaningless in the greater scheme of the conflict. In fact, Corrie, at the time of her death, was probably doing more harm than good towards bringing about a peaceful settlement to the Israeli-Palestinian clash...
...mammoth new book, Against the Day (Penguin Press; 1,085 pages). Of course this makes me not just a Pynchon reader but practically a Pynchon character, another of his comically put-upon quest figures who journey into mysteries that engulf them. Even that is part of Pynchon's grand scheme, which is to make the experience of reading his work a demonstration of his most forceful intuition, or one of them: that history is a monstrously deceptive puzzle and the world is a shower of clues, most of them false...