Word: skeins
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...Northeastern, is a slight favorite. Both the Eagles and the Huskies, however, are stronger squads now than when they met Harvard, and the Crimson may be rusty following the month long break. Northeastern, which last year stunned Harvard by grabbing the GBC title, snapping an eight year Crimson skein, may have difficulty defending its title...
...Department of Health, Education and Welfare has prepared a report that may please feminists but is hardly calculated to make the President happy. Titled "Work in America," the study delves into one of the problems Nixon faces in unraveling the snarled skein of welfare: Since Nixon favors some sort of "workfare" program for the able-bodied on the dole, at what point should welfare mothers be required to seek outside employment...
...device reminiscent of The Exterminating Angel. A small group of frivolous, well-heeled Parisians (Fernando Rey, Delphine Seyrig, Stephane Audran, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Bulle Ogier, Paul Frankeur) sit down to a series of meals that are in some way either interrupted or totally disrupted. The movie is a skein of the guests' separate fantasies, each one originating with the recurring comic nightmare of a disastrous dinner. Bunuel, as if working an artful parlor trick, sometimes pulls one dream from inside another like a series of splendid silks...
After two inconclusive wins to the road, a decisive 8-4 rout of Columbia and a disappointing 2-1 squeeker at Wesleyan, the Harvard soccer team return home for a 10:30 a.m. game with a talented and powerful Cornell team. The Crimson's three year home unbeaten skein, and its New England, Ivy League, and national aspirations are squarely on the line...
...fans over at the Business School may find themselves on the edge of their rents, cops, I mean crazing their sacks on the sidelines, a bit more this fail, however, as Harvard hosts three Ivy teams, all capable of breaking the Crimson's three-year unbeaten skein. In my predicted order of finish these three, and the also runs...