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...soccer team (13-4-0, 6-1-0 Ivy) beat Columbia 3-1 on Ohiri Field, maintaining its half-game advantage in the standings over Penn. It was the fitting end to a late-season run of Crimson dominance. Harvard closed the year on an eight-game winning streak in which it averaged more than three goals per game. Paced by sensational freshman Andre Akpan and two starters who had taken academic leaves last season, junior Matt Hoff and sophomore Mike Fucito, the Crimson brought the nation's second-best per-game scoring average of 2.56 into the weekend. Harvard...
Another element of Healey’s appeal, surprisingly enough, is her party affiliation. Despite the overwhelmingly liberal opinions of Massachusetts voters, the state has had a Republican governor for the last sixteen years. This streak can be partially attributed to weak Democratic opponents, but it also illuminates another crucial factor that has weighed heavily on voters’ minds—balance. Out of 200 State Senators and Representatives in the legislature, only 27—or 13.5%—are Republicans. With a Democrat as governor, the Democratic super-majority will have virtually unlimited leeway...
...charismatic dreamer with inexhaustible curiosity and a mile-wide stubborn streak, Herzog, 64, might be a character from one of his own classic movies--Fitzcarraldo, or Aguirre, the Wrath of God--in which a man is seized by some outsize ambition and just about kills himself trying to realize it. But those were fiction films, which constitute less than half of Herzog's output. In his documentaries he is just as driven to make film heroes out of real men with their own crazy dreams...
...curious omission in all three films is ... sex. Horror movies love to tantalize their (mostly male) viewers with images of lust, the better to punish it. It's a weirdly anti-life streak that runs through most vampire movies, where one dies, or becomes undead, with a single love bite; death those movies say, is a sexually transmitted disease. Even the non-supernatural horror films, from Psycho to Halloween to Hostel, tend to begin with young people having sex-play, then kill them off. Hostel, whose first 40 mins. are a-groan with luscious young women, eventually turns to more...
Last Saturday, the Crimson fell, 31-28, in a heartbreaking defeat at the hands of No. 12 Princeton, ending its undefeated season and nine-game winning streak, as well as diminishing its chances for the Ivy League title...