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...team’s three seniors, starting together for only the second time this season, catapulted Harvard to an early 18-6 lead. Captain Matt Stehle helped stave off a Lions comeback with a monstrous and poignant dunk late in the second half to seal the win and cap a storied four-year career in Cambridge...

Author: By Jonathan Lehman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Seniors Break Streak in Ivy Finale | 3/6/2006 | See Source »

...exercising their brains people can substantially reduce their risk of dementia. Ideally, regular intellectual stimulation would begin early in life and continue through the twilight years. But there's mounting evidence that a late-life surge in mental activity - taking up board games, crosswords, arts and craft - can help stave off the ravages of this dreadful illness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Boosting Brain Fitness | 2/13/2006 | See Source »

This year’s Hasty Pudding performance, “Some Like It Yacht,” is a “zany adventure” set aboard a cruise ship, Dodd said. The show will follow the ship’s embattled crew as they fight to stave off an impending iceberg collision and hijacking by a child starlet, whom Dodd described as “a Shirley Temple gone very, very wrong...

Author: By Lulu Zhou, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Pudding Picks Gere and Berry | 2/1/2006 | See Source »

This year’s Hasty Pudding performance, “Some Like It Yacht,” is a “zany adventure” set aboard a cruise ship, Dodd said. The show will follow the ship’s embattled crew as they fight to stave off an impending iceberg collision and hijacking by a child starlet, whom Dodd described as “a Shirley Temple gone very, very wrong...

Author: By Lulu Zhou, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Halle Berry, Richard Gere To Receive Pudding Pot | 1/26/2006 | See Source »

...Jordan Parise. “We had them on the ropes.” HARVARD 1, NORTH DAKOTA 0 Taylor’s wrister from the right circle just 1:31 into the third frame put the Crimson up Thursday night, and from there on out, Harvard battled to stave off a 16-shot final-frame attack from the Fighting Sioux. But Crimson netminder John Daigneau stopped each and every puck—and 29 on the night—for his third career shutout in front of a sellout crowd of 10,748 fans. North Dakota pulled goalie Philippe...

Author: By Rebecca A. Seesel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Earns Split in North Dakota | 12/31/2005 | See Source »

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