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After a dismal start to the season, no one has been able to beat the Crimson (5-10-3, 5-5-3 ECAC) in its last four games. In that same stretch, the team has outscored its opponents...

Author: By Lucy D. Chen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Men's Hockey Extends Unbeaten Streak with Win and Tie | 1/25/2010 | See Source »

Harvard’s shooting woes down the stretch underscored a poor shooting performance throughout the night. The Crimson shot 14-of-26 from the stripe—53.8 percent—and 2-of-17 from deep...

Author: By Martin Kessler, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: NOTEBOOK: Visit to Dartmouth Proves Unfriendly | 1/25/2010 | See Source »

...seems like a stretch that the Census would have such grand influence, take a moment for a little history. The first Census, in 1790, explicitly asked about only one race: white. Blacks, for the most part, fell into the slave category. Race was about civil status. In the 19th century, concerns about keeping the white race pure led to the addition of the "mulatto" category in 1850 (and "quadroon" and "octoroon" in 1890), a process traced by Harvard political scientist Melissa Nobles in her book Shades of Citizenship. With rising immigration, Chinese and Japanese were added as categories...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Should the Census Be Asking People if They Are Negro? | 1/23/2010 | See Source »

...diluting agent, in cocaine and possibly some heroin. It is now found in 70% of all cocaine seized in the U.S., up from 30% in 2008. Unlike most cuts - usually inert or relatively harmless substances like the B vitamin inositol, which are added by lower-level dealers looking to stretch supplies - levamisole appears to be added to cocaine from the outset, in the countries of origin. The substance has been found in various concentrations in cocaine analyzed in countries around the world, from Switzerland to Australia. And urine tests of cocaine users attending a drug clinic at San Francisco General...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Common Cut in Cocaine May Prove Deadly | 1/20/2010 | See Source »

There were five things Adams House Master Judith S. Palfrey '67 said she was told to remember before carrying the 2010 Olympic Flame across a 300-yard stretch in Calgary, Canada on Tuesday morning. The first three were simple: smile, smile, and smile...

Author: By Barbara B. Depena, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Adams House Master Passes Olympic Flame in Calgary | 1/20/2010 | See Source »

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