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...Harvard field hockey team traveled to Hanover, N.H. on Saturday to face Dartmouth in its penultimate game of the season. The Crimson had won the last four meetings in Hanover and looked to snap a current four-game losing skid. The contest, which featured a total of only five shots on net, was a defensive struggle, but the Big Green (6-9, 4-2 Ivy) broke through on a penalty stroke late in the second half to defeat the Crimson (6-10, 2-4 Ivy), 1-0, on Dartmouth’s Senior Day. Most of the game was marked...
...about the Urkel effect, though he thinks Obama is less nerd than nerd-adjacent. These are the types of terms you have to endure when talking to the author of American Nerd: The Story of My People. "He would be the guy the jocks didn't choose to towel-snap, but he would kind of stand there looking disapproving while they towel-snapped. Whereas McCain would be more likely to towel-snap you, and Sarah Palin would make out with the guy who towel-snapped you," he says...
...questions. After being presented with the impossible challenge to help a fellow sorority sister locate her true love, Gulsvig upstaged Andersson’s answer and revealed her natural wit by thinking on her feet: “Well, I’d just tell you to bend and snap, and he’d come to you!”Before the cast performed two numbers from the show—“Blood in the Water” and “So Much Better,” the dynamic Act I finale—Gulsvig offered...
...Suskind tried to make sense of the “extraordinary” legacy of the Bush administration and the subsequent challenges the next president will face. “The office of the presidency has been stretched out of shape, and it won’t snap back on its own,” he said. There will need to be an extraordinary effort by the next president, Suskind said, to give back power that had been inappropriately seized. Suskind explored the post-Sept. 11 rise in the power of the executive branch and its influence on everyday people...
...charismatic President-elect has urged calm and has already said he will stage snap-elections halfway through his five-year term - a sign, he claims, of his commitment to healthy democracy in the state. Both his ascendant MDP and Gayoom's old regime insist that the transition of governments will be peaceful and efficient. Gayoon addressed the nation magnanimously on state radio, expressing his "full support" for the man who had been a thorn in his side for over a decade. After spending a lifetime warring against Gayoom's dictatorship, Nasheed and his party know they, too, must be graceful...