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...game, and everybody is all jacked up to play us.”But according to captain and defensive lineman Carl Ehrlich, while the expectations may be the same as last year, the Harvard squad that must live up to them is not.“The thing that we’ve talked about on the team is winning an Ivy League Championship,” Ehrlich says. “There was a lot of feel that last year, when we had so many people coming back, we had [quarterback Chris] Pizzotti...
...every kid here has something a little bit special about them. I think while in a certain world you might think that might be great for Harvard football, I think anything you do to try to distinguish athletes as being different from other students would not be a good thing.”The Ivy League’s resistance to handing out athletic scholarships is motivated by the conference’s understanding of its unique role in collegiate football. According to Murphy, the Ivy League is clear in its pursuit to educate those who deserve it most, whether...
...Ratatat as well as fellow neo-psychodelic rockers MGMT, Cudi makes a surprisingly insensitive, unnecessary remark that stands out among his usually moderate tone: “I don’t care, hand on the wheel, drivin’ drunk, I’m doin’ my thing.” And though “Sky Might Fall” is Cudi’s most forthcoming song emotionally—“And then you see ’em / Gray clouds up above, man / Metaphor to my life, man / Still I feel my heart...
...Supermassive Black Hole,” “Apocalypse Please.” Once in a great while, as with their cover of “Feeling Good,” a curve ball might crop up, but for the most part, Muse sing about one thing: the end of the world.A theme that big requires music of a similar scale to prop it up. For Muse, that means crunching guitar riffs and driving base lines overlaid with Matt Bellamy’s operatic, choirboy-gone-bad falsetto. When all these elements come together, Muse songs can be sublime...
...record" comment, after which video of the comment is posted by Politico's Ben Smith, after which said video is quickly removed by Politico because of something to do with being "respectful to a fellow news-gathering operation," but obviously there's no way such a thing can be kept hidden so here it is • Jimmy Carter - he's just bursting with opinions this week - says boorishness of was "completely uncalled for" and that "his punishment was to appear on the new Jay Leno show...