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...With the end of a goalless second period in the first game of the ECAC Hockey Quarterfinals minutes away, Harvard looked set to enter a tense finale against a stubborn Big Red team...
...Stubborn Things...
...Brian J. Bolduc ’10 is an economics concentrator in Winthrop House. On alternate Tuesdays, his column, “Stubborn Things,” will remind Harvard of the conservative viewpoint it often forgets in campus debates. And, whatever may be the dictates of students’ passion, he will show that they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence...
...that's not made up), Goody has been both icon and exponent of a wide strand of Englishness. Inadequately educated, a single parent to two boys, spilling out of nightclubs and ill-fitting dresses, she gave a human face to all those hand-wringing reports detailing Britain's stubborn social inequality and boozy irrepressibility. (See pictures of people drinking on the London Underground...
...antiquity rarely matched the heroism of its myths - it was ugly, nasty and desperate. To stave off a Roman siege in A.D. 189, the defenders of the Greek city of Ambracia built a complex flamethrower that coughed out smoking chicken feathers. At Themiscrya, another stubborn Greek outpost, Romans tunneling beneath the city contended with not only a charge of wild beasts but also a barrage of hives swarming with bees - a rather direct approach to biological warfare...