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...error occurred while processing this directive] today the Chinese capital's best jazz and blues bar. But it gets its name from the fact that it held ice for the imperial family's exclusive use during the Qing dynasty (1644-1911). Every winter, ice was collected from the city moat at Dongzhimen and hauled to the Icehouse, filling the 400-sq-m interior. The walls were sufficiently impervious to the elements for the ice to remain there, unthawed, all year round. But while it was once consecrated to the pleasures of the privileged, the Icehouse is now enjoyed by many...
...games, Harvard played four straight games in which its opponent staged a third-period comeback.Though Cornell was the only team in that stretch that managed to steal a win, the Crimson’s inexperience showed.Harvard especially struggled in its league contests during the period from Thanksgiving weekend through winter break.The Crimson pulled out one-goal victories at St. Lawrence and against Quinnipiac but dropped three other Ivy games, including a 4-3 loss to perennial bottom-feeder Yale.On the other hand, Harvard notched two crucial non-conference wins in December, logging victories in 1-0 nailbiters at New Hampshire...
...third in his second tournament, while classmates John Christensen and Josh Isner played well throughout the fall. Senior D.J. Hynes recovered splendidly from his knee injury, finishing eighth and 11th in a pair of the fall tournaments. The team practiced inside the Murr Center through the cold New England winter on a new golf simulator provided by the Friends of Harvard Golf, but it wasn’t until spring break that the team could return to the outdoors in Jekyll Island, Ga., for the first time in five months. “Over the winter, you pretty much lose...
...This winter, the Harvard women’s hockey team saved its best for last. The squad with a penchant for late-game heroics made waves in March, engineering a dramatic run to an ECAC Tournament title and an NCAA Frozen Eight appearance, despite losing its standouts to the quadrennial Winter Olympics.With its season hanging in the balance, the Crimson dispatched visiting Clarkson in a trio of hard-fought, one-goal games to advance out of the conference tournament quarterfinals. Junior Jennifer Sifers clinched the series win with a double-overtime tally in the rubber match...
...took ninth place out of 13 competing teams at the season-opening St. Lawrence Carnival, a performance it followed with another ninth-place finish at the Vermont Carnival the next week. Harvard was similarly consistent in the second half of the season, posting ninth-place finishes at the Dartmouth Winter Carnival and the Williams Carnival before closing out the season by finishing ninth at the Winterbury Carnival. “It’s a step up from 10th place, where we’ve traditionally been,” nordic coach Peter Graves said, referencing the team?...