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...refereeing in the Harvard women’s hockey team’s 2-1 victory over Dartmouth was as inconsistent as the English department’s treatment of Tom Paulin. Seventeen penalties were called that Friday. Five were for body-checking. The NCAA officials could make the ref’s jobs a whole lot easier with one simple rule change: allow body-checking...
...Seventeen-minute opener “The Sun” sets the tone for the rest of the album, working gradually from silence into frantic tribal beating that is suddenly interrupted by Elvrum’s acapella bleat. Abrasive feedback makes the transition into “Solar System,” only to morph into the welcome sounds of a running river and melodic, lightly strummed guitar. The album’s climax hits with the title track, where layers of dramatic vocals mix with jarring drum loops in an almost sacred blend that recalls Radiohead?...
...footage for one of Moss’ earliest films, Riverdogs, which documented one of the last river trips that he made with his friends. The images—immediately distinguishable from the modern footage by their grainy, nostalgic texture—portray the experiences of a group of seventeen twenty-somethings reluctant to abandon the adolescence that they have long outgrown...
...separate question, respondents were asked to compare the views implied in Lott's statement to the views of Senate Republicans as a group. Seventeen percent feel "most" Senate Republicans feel the same way Lott does; 24 percent say "some but not most" agree with him; 32 percent believe "just a few" are in his camp; 9 percent say "none" and 19 percent aren't sure. These responses revealed far less of a gap between party members: 36 percent of Republicans, 36 percent of Independents and 25 percent of Democrats say there are "just a few" Senate Republicans...
...theater. Nursery, the play this New York City native wrote at age 17, was selected from 1,500 entries to be performed off-Broadway at the Young Playwrights Festival. The New York Times called it “terrific stuff, stunning from a teenage writer,” and Seventeen magazine featured her alongside Josh Hartnett and Venus Williams as one of Seventeen Voices for a New World. She’s also appeared in numerous plays put on by downtown Manhattan luminaries, though she claims to not know...