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...Those threats include freshman Liza Ryabkina. The Ukranian native scored three goals in Harvard’s two-game exhibition series aganst McGill. Harvard won both of those games, beating the Martlets 3-2 and 5-3. Vaillancourt tallied four goals and two assists in the the preseason tune-up as well. Last season Vaillancourt finished with 56 points, leading the Crimson with 30 goals. While there is little doubt about Harvard’s offensive prowess, the Crimson will have to clean up its defense this weekend. During the exhibition games, Harvard’s defensive zone...
...mentions the Celtics or Bruins anymore, mummified teams of a dead divinity. But it is really swinging from one pole of narcissism to another: first the eternal victim, now the eternal champion. Boston sports radio, infesting the airwaves and our morning dining halls, has been singing this tune all year now. And though Boston clings so piously to its musty Catholicism, it is easy to see the formation of new trinities: Bellicheck-Brady-Moss, Francona-Ortiz-Beckett...
...when games drag on, viewers tune out, explaining why so many Americans are turned off by their national pastime. In the end, this will be profitable neither for Major League Baseball nor for the networks that are no longer being watched. More personally, it makes the sport seem unconcerned with welcoming baseball newcomers...
...football on the front lawn. When they're not engaged in Scrabble or an improvised singalong, they break up into speed-solving crossword teams. Come evening, there's a family talent show. Dan and Mitch duet on Pete Townshend's "My Love Opened the Door" (as if that perky tune hadn't been worn out in a half-dozen movies and commercials for J.C. Penney and NBC). And the children, I'm not kidding, give mime performances. In Wedding Crashers and other movies, broods like this are easy butts for derision. But Hedges takes them at face value...
...pluck with your right hand and create ornaments with your left.”“It’s almost like playing a rubber band,” she elaborates. “The tighter you hold it, the higher the pitch. The looser you tune it, the lower the pitch. You can manipulate the string on the left side. It’s very expressive.”Wednesday’s performance was organized by the Harvard Korea Institute. Clark, a graduate of the Korean Studies doctoral program, had originally contacted the Institute to publicize their...