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Harvard kept right on going at cruise control in the second period, as Eckert and Ferrucci lured the Hofstra defense off to the side of the field and kept the middle lane open for take-off. Two more goals by Pat Marvin kept Harvard at a three-goal lead to end the half...
Terrell McSweeny '97 says she "comes from a good Irish family with all sorts of rules about spilled salts." Her family wards off plane crashes with a superstition inherited from one of her father's war buddies. Sitting on an airplane before take-off, McSweeney recites a line modified from the Song of Solomon, "Arise, my love, and fly again." As a child, her whole family would link hands and say this; now she mutters it under her breath when she flies alone. "I think it's embarrassing every now and again," she admits, but adds that she would...
...back cover of this month's Peninsula (I am speaking of the February edition, dropped at my door on Wednesday, March 1) contains the following crafty take-off on a cigarette advertisement: "If you like to read, please try Peninsula." And it is in these few words that the story of this journal's startling lack of intellectual nuance begins...
Other stories printed in the November premiere issue are titled How to Become a Recording Mogul; American and Disaffected at Oxford; Mountain Biking and Me (sponsored by Polo Sport); and A History Lesson with the Spin Doctors' Lead. The heart of the magazine is a Fortune take-off that attempts to portray America's Most Powerful 20-Somethings. That Julia Roberts qualifies for the list is symbolic of the standards. But even more significant is the shallowness of the portraits, including quotations lifted from the interviews of other magazines...
...surprise of the night was actually the opening act, Doobious Leghorn. In just a five-song set, the five-member band covered the musical spectrum from R&D to heavy metal to a take-off of "Putt the Magic Dragon" that got everyone on their feet. "We play whatever tickles our fancy," said guitarist Dan Bernal, and we have a lot of fancies to tickle...