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...somewhat less than grand public school in the north of England in the 1980s, a group of bright young students have been singled out for special tutoring with an eye to getting them into either Oxford or Cambridge, which would greatly enhance school's prestige. Or so, at least, its cranky and clueless headmaster believes. He places an eccentric teacher named Hector (Richard Griffiths) in charge of their tuition, then adds a newcomer to the faculty, a man named Irwin (Stephen Campbell Moore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The History Boys Makes the Grade | 11/22/2006 | See Source »

Harvard is currently tied for last in the ECAC with two points. The Crimson faces league-leading Quinnipiac (nine points) and fellow cellar-dweller Princeton (two points) at the Bright Center this coming weekend, and then former conference foe Vermont visits the following Tuesday...

Author: By Courtney D. Skinner, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Crimson Drops Third in Row | 11/22/2006 | See Source »

After that, Harvard has more than two weeks of rest before a mid-December game against ECAC rival Dartmouth (eight points), also in the Bright Hockey Center...

Author: By Courtney D. Skinner, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Crimson Drops Third in Row | 11/22/2006 | See Source »

...Harvard men’s hockey team keeps tying historic marks. But almost none of them are the good kind. The Crimson dropped a 5-2 contest to Yale on Saturday night at the Bright Hockey Center, falling to last place in the league standings and running its record to 2-6-0 (1-6-0 ECAC)—its worst start to the season since the mid-1960s. Rookie winger Chris Cahill scored the game-winner for the Bulldogs at 10:47 of the second period, putting away a bouncing puck at the right post into a half...

Author: By Karan Lodha, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Crimson Falls to Bottom of ECAC | 11/19/2006 | See Source »

...Rather than being grief-stricken, this Becca comes off as merely irritable, and one can hardly blame Howie for wanting to stay out of the house.James Noone’s set, a slide-show of rooms sliding (creakily) in and out of the frame of the house, is a bright spot of the evening, transitioning inventively from perfect suburban kitchen to perfect suburban living room to the child’s heart-breakingly adorable bedroom. A great set is lovely, but it cannot make up for an otherwise lame evening. If you have a ticket already, seeing the Huntington?...

Author: By Jillian J. Goodman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Huntington’s ‘Rabbit Hole’ Might be Better in An Alternative Universe | 11/19/2006 | See Source »

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