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...decreed that only one tent may be pitched in the area. “There’s an ongoing competition,” said Joshua M. Brener ’07, president of the Pudding, “and the circus is down on its luck and looking to fight off the onslaught of the advancing freak show.” In the midst of this rivalry, one of the circus’s star acrobats develops a verboten love for one of the freaks, a failed Japanese Samurai-cum-sword-swallower fittingly named Ai Swallows...
...money. Like a growing number of poker-playing kids, Jeff got heavily involved in Internet gambling when he went to college. Online poker, with the potential to play many tables at once and the possibility of quickly losing your entire year's tuition in a torrent of bad-luck bits and bytes, can cut both ways. It provides the same emphasis on logic and calculation but lacks the social controls of face-to-face games with friends. It can swallow players up, as in the infamous case of the Lehigh University student who robbed a bank last December...
...foiled, this time by the hustle and alertness of a Brown player from the forward line; her tenacity led to an impressive save of Harvard’s best offensive opportunity on goal. The heart-stopping play seemed to be an omen of the team’s unfortunate luck. Not even two minutes after the whistle rang in the second half, the Bears lit up the scoreboard with what would be the deciding goal. Knoche blocked a set of Brown shots but could not stop the final rebound before it found the stick of a perfectly positioned Bear. Pummeled...
...Crimson did not have the same luck in capitalizing on its opportunities, even though it outshot the Quakers 10-6, with seven of those ten shots on net. Penn’s goalie, senior Daniel Cepero, did have an exceptional game, finishing the day with six saves...
...League everyone is so evenly matched and a little bit of luck here and there and everyone can be equally good,” said senior midfielder Tom Stapleton. “We had a little bit of bad luck...