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Back From the Injured, II: Speaking of last year's Crimson, Ted Drury has recovered from his own kneecap injury--a fracture, suffered while playing earlier this year for the Calgary Flames--and almost got the game-winner in Team USA's last tune-up before the Winter Olympics...
...said that the only thing expected of last year's De Jersey winner, Jennifer Light '93, was that she host a formal dinner party at the Harvard Club of London...
Actually the source of their agony is the same person, a gushy and gauche young woman (Sophie Thompson, sister of Oscar winner Emma) on whom both of the men and the lesbian fix their romantic longings. The same bent for imagination that makes them so keen for the game lets them see undying devotion where only vague kindness is meant. Sweet but terminally insensitive and preoccupied with her own problems as the battered wife of a stalking husband, this unlikely femme fatale remains unaware of her allure until much too late...
Even more, the case fits into an almost satisfyingly easy moral mold; the dissipative Harding, the embittered loser in the last Olympiad, and the exalted Kerrigan, the winner, could just as easily be the Wicked Witch and Snow White. The public's fascination with the case is not unlike the rapt attention that little children pay to morally simplistic fairy tales...
Mleczko gave Harvard all the offense it would need, as her goal at the 7:38 mark of the first proved to be the game-winner...