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Sophomore point guard Jenn Monti averages 8.6 assists per game, good for eighth in the nation. Captain Laela Sturdy shoots 52.1 percent from behind the arc, making her third in the country. And junior center Melissa Johnson averages 11.6 rebounds per game--0.1 behind Caramanico--good for eighth in the country...

Author: By William P. Bohlen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: W. Hoops, Penn Set Stage for Performance | 2/11/2000 | See Source »

DeCosta, who leads the conference in save percentage (.954) and is second in goals-against average (1.26), was not phased by any of Stone's line changes. She came out of the box when she had to and relied on her stick and her glove to record her eighth shutout of the season...

Author: By Zevi M. Gutfreund, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: No. 1 W. Hockey Falls to No. 8 Providence, Ties No. 6 Northeastern | 2/7/2000 | See Source »

...eighth grade," she tells me. All I can think of is that my mother would have never let me wear a tube top in eighth grade...

Author: By Deirdre Mask, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Wonderful World Of MTV | 2/4/2000 | See Source »

...case of Alabama death row inmate Robert Lee Tarver. Convicted of robbery and murder in 1984, Tarver was hours from death when the Justices issued a stay of execution and agreed to consider the inmate's claim that Alabama's primary mode of execution - the electric chair - violates his Eighth Amendment rights, which protect him against cruel and unusual punishment. Alabama, Nebraska and Georgia are the only remaining states to use the electric chair exclusively, and have faced a growing tide of criticism in recent years after several botched executions, which resulted in more blood and highly visible pain than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Alabama: A Kinder, Gentler Mode of Execution? | 2/4/2000 | See Source »

...While some people have their final clubs and such here at Harvard, the equivalent for me was the percussion section of the eighth grade band. Ten of us, all guys except for the bells player, (but bells aren't really percussion, anyway, so we didn't count her either) would take up our station at the back of the gigantic band room where we were stragetically positioned for fraternizing and making mischief. The band teacher, enraged, literally turned scarlet as we tried our best to sabotage the rehearsals. Some days, we would intentionally play off beat; others we would...

Author: By William P. Bohlen, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Endpaper: My Electric Vision | 2/3/2000 | See Source »

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