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...excoriation of Senator John Kerry as being soft on Saddam, a frantic aide telephoned to urge him to tone it down. A suicide car bomber had just torn the front off a hotel in central Baghdad. Cable news was going crazy, and aides had nightmares of Cheney speaking in split screen with smoldering rubble. According to a person familiar with the incident, Cheney raised his right eyebrow, gave a quarter grin and shook off the advice. "The guy cannot be unnerved," the person said. A former Administration official put it this way: "If the VP isn't proven right until...
...start by upending Dartmouth in a tight 1-0 victory. With the win, the Golden Knights moved to 4-0-0, and are the only team to have won all its conference contests to date.AROUND THE LEAGUEIn another intriguing matchup involving an ECAC foe this weekend, No. 9 Princeton split its series with No. 10 Ohio State. The Tigers won 4-1 on Friday and then could not hold up in the defensive battle on Saturday, losing to the Buckeyes by a score of 2-1. Next week, Princeton will face the powerful Northern rivals when Clarkson and St. Lawrence...
...comprise a system where best-case scenarios are few and far-between. Depending on the club, punches at the first round have only a 5 to 15 percent chance of becoming members of that club. Many other interested sophomores and juniors never get punched at all. Blocking groups get split up among clubs. Feelings get hurt. Sometimes friendships are irreparably damaged. And until very recently, women looking for space to call their own basically had no options.Even these objections don’t begin to tackle the bigger issues final clubs raise in terms of the social scene at Harvard...
...taking a quick look at the statistics.In the last Olympic year, 2001-2002, Minnesota-Duluth beat Brown for the title. In that season, Minnesota’s two freshman goalies had goals-against averages of 1.42 and 1.43, respectively. Brown’s goalie tandem, which also split minutes, had a 1.55 and 1.73 GAA. And all four were in the top nine. Three of the four were in the top four in save percentage.Pretty darn amazing, especially considering neither team had a consistent starting goalie the whole season.How does that bode for Harvard this season?Well, two years...
...offensive spark, and netminder Melissa Bourdon is relied upon to keep opponents out of the net, as she did in allowing a mere seven goals through the team’s first five games.WISCONSINBy all indications, the Badgers should make it a three-team dogfight atop the WCHA, splitting an early-season series with Duluth, who also split with Minnesota. In a year when the best players head to the Olympics, junior Sara Bauer may be the most talented player left in the country. Classmate Bobbi-Jo Slusar is a force to be reckoned with patrolling the blue line. This...