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Without missing a beat Saturday night, junior forward Alex Meintel explained that the pucks were “just kind of finding the net.” He credited his teammates’ passes, then praised the bounces his stick produced.Such modesty can explain away one goal, or perhaps a lucky two. But Meintel knocked home four pucks—including a hat trick Friday night—as the Harvard men’s hockey team beat Union and Rensselaer at the Bright Hockey Center this weekend. Meintel’s outburst lifted him to second on the team?...
...Wolverines, and could not pick up momentum fast enough to put a real scare into Big Blue.“There was significant improvement on the night before,” Fish said, “but [Michigan] was whole different level of team. It has doubles that can stick with anyone in the country.”The Wolverines swept the doubles matches to pick up their first point with relative ease, forcing Harvard into the challenging bind of having to win four of six singles matches.At first, the Crimson looked determined to pull off the upset, winning their...
...series of pre-court-martial hearings and rulings have limited the scope of Watada's available arguments to the point that he and his lawyer now concede they have no ability to stick to their original strategy of putting the war on trial, and little hope of keeping Watada from a prison sentence. "Unfortunately, in the military system, when it comes down to war, the policies of war are dictated by the Administration," Watada said in an interview with TIME. His lawyer, Eric Seitz, is less circumspect. "Military courts don't constitute a justice system," Seitz says. "They constitute...
...Kirkland, Class of 1789, and Samuel Eliot Morison, Class of 1908, notes of the transition that “Tiberius succeeded Augustus.” Quincy got things done, but he was not loved, and one of the few artifacts of his presidency that remains is his stout walking stick with which he was known to thrash errant undergraduates...
...Last King of Scotland was distributed through a Hollywood studio, which gave it a bigger audience than any British studio could. The film now has one Oscar nomination for its star Forest Whitaker and five bafta nominations. As Macdonald knows, it's the Oscar that will stick. He won an Academy Award in 2000 for his documentary on the Munich Olympics, One Day in September, and a bafta four years later for Touching the Void. "Winning a bafta is like winning a literary award," he says. "You're happy, your friends phone you up, and a week later everyone...