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...quarterfinals of the ECAC playoffs commence at Bright Hockey Center tonight with the eighth-ranked Harvard women’s hockey team squaring off against conference upstart No. 10 Clarkson for the second time in a week. The Crimson topped the Golden Knights, 3-2, on a last-second, sudden-death goal by senior Jennifer Raimondi last Saturday, to earn host privileges for the best-of-three series. The puck drops at 7 p.m. tonight, with game two scheduled for 4 p.m. tomorrow and a rubber match at the same time on Sunday, if necessary...
That result came on the heels of last Tuesday’s semifinals, in which the upstart Terriers and the struggling Huskies to pushed Harvard and BC, respectively, to overtime before falling...
...From the moment he came to power in a surprising election victory last June over Ayatollah Khameini's preferred candidate, Ahmedinajad has been assailed from two sides: the Old Guard of clerics who backed the candidacy of former President Ali Akbar Rafsanjani and mistrust Ahmedinajad as a young upstart; and the Reformers who had rallied around his predecessor, Muhammad Khatami, and don't like his revivalist radicalism...
Slide over Hyundai?the next automotive upstart that takes the wheel in the U.S. will probably be Chinese. In Detroit this week, a small company called Geely (pronounced Jee-lee) will be the first Chinese automaker to display a car at the North American International Auto Show. Unveiling the compact sedan, whose name translates as Free Cruiser, is a bit of a stunt since Geely may be a couple of years away from shipping products to the U.S. Yet the company has big plans, aiming to export 1.3 million vehicles worldwide, including small sedans for less than...
Harvard dancers will be in a bit of a strange position this weekend, and it won’t be a split. They’ll have to contend with the usually unwelcome possibility that a promising but inexperienced upstart might steal the spotlight at their show, yet they don’t seem at all unhappy.That’s because the scene-stealing youth is not a dancer at all, but the new Harvard Dance Center, which this week’s Inaugural Gala Concert will celebrate. So far, the center has received praise from dancers...