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After writing about plants in her acclaimed book, The Orchid Thief, Orlean has moved on to animals, penning a piece on Keiko, the whale from Free Willy, for the New Yorker. She also interviewed a woman in New Jersey who kept close to 30 pet tigers. “People have an appetite for exotic things—it’s kind of an enduring issue in human nature.” Both accounts are collected in her new book, Homewrecker: Travel Stories from a Woman Who’s Been Everywhere, which will come out in November...
...biggest win of the Harvard men’s hockey team’s season came Friday night at the Ingalls Rink (commonly known as the Yale Whale) when the team rallied from a 5-2 deficit, scoring six unanswered goals to capture a come-from-behind 7-5 win over its Ivy league rival...
After suffering back-to-back losses to Brown and Boston College and holding only a 2-4 record in the year 2004, the tide of Harvard’s fortune had appeared to reach its ebb after the first period at the Whale. This was not a new situation for the Harvard men’s hockey team; on a number of occasions this season, the team has found itself on the bitter side of a box score, the result of mental lapses and third-period collapses. But this rainy Friday in New Haven was not such an occasion...
That the Crimson was able to respond to that tremendous adversity, as Mazzoleni described it, and leave the Whale with a ‘W’ does speak volumes about the team’s character...
...smaller companies were smart and lucky. Newmarket, unencumbered by the MPAA embargo, sent Academy members screeners of Monster and Whale Rider and was rewarded with Best Actress nominations for Charlize Theron and 13-year-old Keisha Castle-Hughes. Lions Gate flooded the membership with early screeners of Girl with a Pearl Earring (three arts-and-crafts citations) and The Cooler (a Supporting Actor nomination for Alec Baldwin...