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After a frustrating first half of the season, the Crimson has just recently begun to show signs of resurrection. A key victory over Cornell--where Miller scored a goal and assisted on the game winner--lifted Harvard's record over the .500 mark...
Harvard (5-1, 3-0 Ivy) scored the final six points in the mud of Harvard Stadium during a crucial three-minute stretch in the middle of the fourth period, and sophomore kicker Mike Giampaolo's career-long 43-yard field goal proved to be the game-winner...
Princeton got ahead on a 36-yard field goal by Alex Sierk. On the ensuing possession, Harvard's long snapper, sophomore Nathan Dean, sailed a punt snap way over Giampaolo's head. The future game-winner scored his first two points for the other team, running out the back of the endzone for a safety and a 5-0 Princeton lead...
President Clinton thought he had a winner in his back-to-school-season campaign to create national academic standards. But his effort has not fared too well. The voluntary tests he proposed met with strong criticism from conservatives, who argued that they would bring too much federal control over education, and the proposal is now languishing in a congressional committee. In a sense, though, the fate of Clinton's initiative may be largely irrelevant because the question of standards is being vigorously addressed by the states themselves...
Watching the show these days is a wearying experience. Ellen leafing through the Gay Yellow Pages: "Check out the abs on that mortician." A friend of Ellen's opening a bottle of Fire Island Lager and reading the cap: "I'm a winner! Two free tickets to Lord of the Dance!" The writers have decided to find humor in gay stereotypes, but there is something brittle and off-putting about this. While that strategy may work in the movie In & Out, Ellen seems to be reaching for a campiness that doesn't suit it. Those flaws aside, the real problem...