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With the top defense in Division I-AA in town on Saturday, it was no shock that the game turned on a late turnover.The surprise came when it was Harvard’s defense, not Lafayette’s, that made the big play in the end.A 91-yard interception return for a touchdown by senior cornerback Steven Williams late in the fourth quarter preserved the Crimson’s narrow lead and helped Harvard (3-2, 2-0 Ivy) hold on for a 27-17 win over the Leopards (4-2) in front of 10,001 fans at Harvard...
...faculty and a student, dismantled a chapel in Grafton, N.H., board by board and rebuilt it board by board (including the labor and encouragement of all the classes) on the Concord Academy campus. With Hall as Head, Concord students learned that women could run tractors, paint clapboards, participate in town meetings, pursue dreams. The possibilities of action were unlimited. It was this spirit that attracted Drew to Concord Academy...
...opening faculty meeting in the fall of 1960, the Concord Academy teachers were alerted to the arrival of a new freshman boarder from a small town in Virginia. She was only 12 years old, about to be 13. It seemed likely that she would be homesick, unsure of herself, slow to make friends. Drew Gilpin—known in high school simply as Drewdie—was none of those things...
...they were actually kind of brilliant. Now, I want them just to write a song I actually like. On their sixth album, “Widow City,” the brother-sister duo of Matthew and Eleanor Friedberger continue their brand of bluesy, loosely constructed indie, going to town with the various instruments Matthew has managed to find (this includes a Chamberlin). According to the website of their new label, Thrill Jockey, the lyrics were inspired by a combination of ads from the back of early seventies design magazines, the cultural pages of local alternative lifestyle newspapers...
...people will dispute the carnage that took place in the Iraqi town of Haditha on Nov. 19, 2005: Women and children were killed in their homes alongside adult males by U.S. Marines. The Marines originally said that the civilians were killed as a result of a roadside bomb. TIME first brought the incident and its contradictions to light in March 2006, beginning a series of official investigations and contributing to the loud public debate on the deployment of the U.S. military in Iraq. The trouble, however, has been with coming up with a prosecutable case against the Marines involved...