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...tunes like "You've Gotta Have Heart," "Whatever Lola Wants," "The Good Old Days" and "Goodbye Old Girl," which is more than you can say of the Globe sports pages. As you might expect, a show mixing Faust and the Yankees was combustible stuff on Broadway--one of its longest-running shows, in fact. Maybe the Devil helped light the fire. At any rate, this wacky gem bodes well (or should I say evilly?) to make a spirited evening (one hell of a pun, no?). At Eliot House Dining Hall, tonight through Saturday at 8; tickets at Holyoke Center...
...score was 18-10, if you were counting, but even that does not indicate how thoroughly Cornell--owners of the longest winning streak in college lacrosse history--dominated the rain-soaked contest. The Big Red roared off to 5-0 and 10-2 leads before the half, and they controlled all aspects of the game until they eased off in the second half with the lead comfortably established...
...defense looked rusty at times for Harvard, as the midfielders had some trouble getting back into the hole, but for the most part Harvard's team played like a well-oiled machine. The injuries pose the biggest question mark in preparation for Cornell, which set a record for longest winning streak ever (34) by defeating powerhouse Johns Hopkins Saturday...
...somewhat astonished to find that the longest word in the Oxford English Dictionary was floccinaucinihilipilification [March 13]. Having long been an aficionado of language oddities, I had thought the longest word to be pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis (a disease of miners caused by inhaling silicate dust...
...courses dealing with professional ethics that are offered to Harvard undergraduates, Quincy 107, "Business in American Life," has been around the longest. Instituted in 1973 by Thomas J.C. Raymond, professor of Business Administration at the Business School, the course has more than doubled its original enrollment of 25 students since then, and this year is being taught in two sections...