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...surprisingly, the disparity was most pronounced in the fateful second period, in which BC notched each of its first three goals. Harvard failed to muster a single shot for the frame’s first 11 minutes, while the Eagles lobbed volley after volley at Dov Grumet-Morris’ cage...
...After a volley of complaints on the House open list about dining hall crowds and overworked staff, Quincy House Master Robert P. Kirshner ’70 called an open meeting Tuesday night to discuss the possibility of enacting the Houses’s first dining hall restrictions...
...affects him: "I received some $250 [worth of] benefits, but my monetary compensation is now $31 while my utility bills have increased by 150%. The state must really hate its defenders to taunt them like this." The cutbacks triggered protests all across Russia, and a rare volley of criticism aimed directly at President Putin. "With this legislation, Putin has delegitimized his office," says Mikhail Delyagin, an economist and director of the Institute of Modernization. "He's created the threat of a major state crisis and the disintegration of Russia." That may be hyperbolic, but such open opposition to the government...
...students routinely do homework together well past then. After administrators made the overdue decision last spring to extend shuttles into the early morning, low late-night ridership recently led University Hall to consider scaling back service to 3 a.m. or 2 a.m. But faced with a volley of student e-mails imploring them to keep the shuttles running, Assistant Dean of the College Paul J. McLoughlin and Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 last week wisely decided, in spite of the high cost, to maintain weekday late night shuttle service for the rest...
...always been much cooler than me. When I was a freshman, writers’ meetings intimidated me because I could never keep up with the fast volley of inside jokes bouncing back and forth in the Sanctum. A year of writing helped slightly, though when I was being interviewed for the associate editor position, I self-consciously admitted to the then-execs that my biggest weakness was my “lack of snap.” I just wasn’t funny, I told them sheepishly, over an incredibly awkward schmooze at Daedalus. As an associate...