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...football star Sean Taylor by still unknown assailants was tragic. But for residents of Miami, where Taylor was shot early Monday morning in his suburban home during an apparent break-in, it also felt tragically familiar. Taylor, 24, a standout safety for the Washington Redskins, was an equally stellar defensive back for the University of Miami Hurricanes. And his untimely death was just the latest in what has become an unsettling succession of violent ends for active and former UM players...
BOSTON, Mass.—Sometimes it takes a team effort, but last night, the No. 18 Harvard men’s hockey team (5-2-0, 4-2-0 ECAC) relied on stellar individual achievements for its 2-1 overtime win against the cross-town rival Boston University Terriers (3-7-2, 3-3-1 Hockey East) at the Agganis Arena...
After last season’s inconsistency in the crease, questions abounded about sophomore goaltender Kyle Richter entering this season. But Richter continued to dispel any lingering doubts with his stellar performance in Friday night’s 2-1 victory against longtime rival Cornell. “Kyle made some highlight-reel saves again, and I think they really added to our momentum,” co-captain Mike Taylor said. When the Big Red came alive in the second period, peppering shot after shot on goal, Richter stepped up to the challenge. Although Cornell never relented...
Rather than looking for a stellar wobble, Charbonneau and others are watching red dwarfs for signs of their light subtly dimming as an orbiting planet passes in front of them--a sort of mini-eclipse known as a transit. "If an Earth-size planet in an Earthlike orbit passes in front of a star like the sun," he says, "it dims the star by 1 part in 10,000 or even less." Since a habitable planet around an M-dwarf is much closer--about 7 million miles (11 million km) away--the transit lasts significantly longer. And since the star...
Volleyball captain Suzie Trimble closed out her senior campaign in fine fashion, receiving Ivy League Player of the Week accolades for her stellar play in last weekend’s matches against Columbia and Cornell. After posting eight kills in the Crimson’s 3-0 sweep of the Lions on Friday, the middle blocker notched a team-high 24 kills in Saturday’s 3-2 loss to the Big Red. With only three errors and 43 kill attempts in the Cornell match, Trimble finished with a striking .488 hitting percentage. In the second game of that...