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...seat in the furious sprint to the finish. It marked the first time since an April 2001 loss to Princeton that Harvard has surrendered a dual race. The win gave No. 7 Brown its first Stein Cup victory since 2000 and sent the No. 3 Crimson to an unfamiliar 0-1 dual record.“Losing is never fun, no matter what the streak or the history,” captain four-seat Morgan Henderson said. “We’re using this to build on.”Harvard saw its streak end in the most...
...especially given its miniature scale. The volume is fine-tuned such that you can still talk with your friends, though you may have to raise your voice. The bass is just strong enough to give you a little kick in the pants. It is a superb place to hear unfamiliar bands. After the opener came the headliner: Starhick. They performed a set of excellent alt-country. ‘Twas laid back, mellow, yet rocking, and it went well with my Bass ale and mildly shouted conversations. The stage was a tad too small for a four-piece band?...
...Holden Choir choral groups perform early music pieces on a regular basis.The Chamber Singers, a subgroup of Collegium Musicum, is currently under the direction of Emily C. Zazulia ’06 and has focused on fifteenth and sixteenth century music this year. Zazulia says she has enjoyed introducing unfamiliar material to a new audience: “It is wonderful to see the way that newcomers fall in love with this music. They’ll say ‘Wow, I didn’t even know this sort of music existed. It’s beautiful...
...ways to be informed, entertained or otherwise diverted.Yet this is not enough, not when new sources of “content,” as the information industry likes to call creative endeavors and conversations, are flooding into our homes and offices. How can we find useful news from unfamiliar sources, for example? What—whom—can we trust? Luckily, the Daily Me is evolving into what we might think of as a “Daily We” where recommendations from the wider community supplement our own selections in a collaborative filtering process.Websites such...
...evolution" of the nation's military toward the "harder side" of peacemaking. "We're going into [the Taliban's] yard," says Brigadier General Fraser, who commanded the Mechanized Brigade Group in Edmonton, Alta., before his assignment to Afghanistan. "We're going to start kicking them." Those were unfamiliar messages for Canadians accustomed to seeing themselves in the post-cold war world as benign peacekeepers. And it has enraged critics who say the Afghan enterprise was wrongheaded from the start. "Trying to stabilize an environment like Afghanistan isn't doable in a war-fighting situation," says Peggy Mason of the Pearson...