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...hoops has ever seen.The unit includes freshman forward Alex Ahmed, fellow first year Dave Boswell, and senior big man Jacob Mays to compliment Puchtel. The challenge this squad of athletic, quick, and often mammoth men poses to the women’s team is a double-edged sword??it is a struggle but also a huge boost for the team.“It helps to play men a lot faster and stronger than us—guys play at a lot higher level,” sophomore forward Katie Rollins said. “The coaches want...

Author: By Walter E. Howell, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Crossing Over: The Scout Team Ballers | 12/8/2006 | See Source »

...placed one of the closing pieces of “Sunset Tree,” the usually somber elegy “Love Love Love.” The song starts at the periphery of a child’s education: “King Saul fell on his sword??and Joseph’s brother sold him down the river for a song,” and finishes at what was presumably a central moment in a young songwriter’s growth, Kurt Cobain’s suicide...

Author: By Dan P. Mach, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Mountain Goats Reinterpret Love | 11/3/2005 | See Source »

They say that “the pen is mightier than the sword?? and that “terrorism is the weapon of the weak.” Put ’em together and you discover that the Crimson column is the weapon of the terrorized “little bitch”—and maybe, just maybe, I can get some retributive justice out of this...

Author: By David Weinfeld, | Title: 'Little Bitch' Manifesto | 2/24/2005 | See Source »

...legal experts hold that, in this case, the Harvard name could act as a double-edged sword??jurors might see Pring-Wilson as an upstanding citizen caught off-guard in a dangerous situation, or they could see a haughty Ivy Leaguer who believed he could get away with an act of violence against a local Hispanic teen...

Author: By Hana R. Alberts, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: With a Harvard Student as the Defendant, the Case Could Swing Either Way | 9/24/2004 | See Source »

Inspired by his luscious, repressed female host—you could cut the sexual tension with an intricately engraved sword??Algren takes up arms against his former employers, the easily manipulated emperor and his evil American advisers. The only problem, from a narrative standpoint, is that the audience has no idea why it should oppose the Western-leaning Japanese ruler or root for the samurai, who are themselves highly militaristic and weaponry-obsessed. The only discernible difference between the two parties is the crude machine guns used by the modernizers and the bows and arrows of the traditionalists...

Author: By Nathan Burstein, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Movie Review | 12/12/2003 | See Source »

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