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...Lawrence methodically recaptured the edge, with freshman Alison Domenico lighting the lamp in both the second and third periods. She followed her own miss on the equalizer and beat Boe weak-side on the go-ahead score. The tie, on the heels of a disappointing 4-3 loss to upstart Clarkson the day before, redeemed what could have been a disastrous second conference weekend. In snapping top-ranked St. Lawrence’s winning streak, and extending its unbeaten streak against the school to 13, Harvard maintained its foothold on the national scene. “Coming...
Martin isn't the best known of America's straight-up fantasy writers. That honor would probably go to upstart Christopher Paolini (Eragon), or Robert Jordan (the endlessly turning Wheel of Time series), or better yet to ageless grandmistress Ursula K. LeGuin (A Wizard of Earthsea). But of those who work in the grand epic-fantasy tradition, Martin is by far the best. In fact, with his newest book, A Feast for Crows (Bantam; 784 pages), currently descending on bookstores and ascending best-seller lists, this is as good a time as any to proclaim him the American Tolkien...
Perhaps more than any other sector, Harvard’s media scene has fallen victim to this lure of independence—and the new year’s crop of upstart publications is proof that students would rather create redundant projects than adjust to an existing niche...
Vonage, AT&T CallVantage and other digital phone services offer home calling more inexpensively than traditional providers. Upstart Net-access companies have also cut the cost of getting wired. Sites like abtolls.com and thelist.com can help identify the most competitive offerings...
...Microsystems and Google announced this week an agreement to distribute software together, some observers quickly pumped up the familiar Microsoft versus [insert latest tech threat here] story. Sun?s CEO is the fallen tech star Scott McNealy, who seems to be obsessed with vanquishing Microsoft. Google, the game-changing upstart, is now led by a battle-worn veteran, Eric Schmidt, who has been beaten up a couple times by Microsoft himself, but lived to fight another...