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...Vaughn nabbed assists on the play.Now up 2-0, Harvard was forced to go on the defensive.Brine was called for holding at 7:15 in the second, and the Crimson would be shorthanded for the following 5:45. Cornell found the back of the net only once during that span, on a 5-on-3 advantage at 9:10.Ivy League Rookie of the Year Rebecca Johnston launched a shot that ricocheted off the post, leading to a flurry of shots from the Big Red offense. It was sophomore Liz Zorn who finally put the puck past Harvard goalie Christina Kessler...
Donato took over at the helm of the Crimson in 2004, when he replaced the recently departed Mark Mazzoleni. He came into a pretty comfortable situation: Harvard had made the NCAA Tournament three years running, a span that included two ECAC championship titles. Goaltender Dov Grumet-Morris ’05, who would make a case for the Hobey Baker in his final season, and captain Noah Welch ’05 would anchor a defense that would prove near-impenetrable...
...playoff picture, and the Crimson’s role in it, has changed significantly since those winter doldrums. After a loss to Brown on Feb. 1, Harvard has won six of its last seven contests, and its only loss in that span may have been its best-played game of the entire season, a Beanpot-finale slugfest against Boston College...
...known imprisonment. He’s been forced to move 9,500 miles from his birthplace in Kamiriithu, Kenya, due to a hostile Kenyan government. But even separated from the subject of “Wizard of the Crow” by the width of a planet, a span of 22 years, and a great deal of allegory, Thiong’o stays true to Africa and to the African language, Gikuyu, in which the novel was written. Thiong’o’s latest book, written in the African oral storytelling tradition, tackles modern Africa, deftly navigating...
...flicking through a newspaper, we’ve grown accustomed to jumping from one activity to the next without giving anyone our undivided attention and care. According to a report by the BBC, “the addictive nature of web browsing can leave you with an attention span of nine seconds—the same as a goldfish.” It’s difficult for even the putative best and brightest to concentrate on the moment at hand with midterms, rehearsals and deadlines vying for their attention, and an iPhone full of distractions competing for what?...