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...indefinitely with a leg injury. Blueliner J.D. McCabe was also out of uniform....The Crimson outshot the Big Green 32-29, including 15-7 in the third period....Of the 74 total shots Harvard attempted, 26 were blocked by the Dartmouth defense....The Crimson begins its home slate this weekend, when Clarkson and St. Lawrence travel to Cambridge. —Staff writer Karan Lodha can be reached at klodha@fas.harvard.edu...
Word of the similarities between Ilyinsky’s article and the Slate piece was quickly picked up by Harvard-watching bloggers, who immediately recalled Kaavya Viswanathan ’08. The author’s debut novel was pulled from bookshelves last year after The Crimson found similarities between Viswanathan’s novel and several other books...
...Slate article said: “The ground was not especially sticky in Little Women when Louisa May Alcott wrote that ‘the land literally flowed with milk and honey,’ nor was Tom Sawyer turning somersaults on piles of money when Twain described him as ‘literally rolling in wealth,’ nor was Jay Gatsby shining when Fitzgerald wrote that ‘he literally glowed?...
Ilyinsky’s column also described an announcer’s use of the word “literally” during a televised football game—a quotation that also made it into a blog, linked from the Slate article, that tracks the use and misuse of the word...
...fourth similarity pointed out by the editors’ note, Ilyinsky’s piece and the Slate article both contain a paragraph of “Janus words”—words that can have opposite usages...