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...Yale Bulldogs (7-14-2, 4-11-1 ECAC) entered the game trying to escape their next-to-last league position, while the Crimson (8-12-2, 7-7-2) attempted to vault themselves out of ECAC mediocrity...
...final lecture of the class is the first performance of a new piece of music commissioned for the course, according to Kelly. The next-to-last lecture includes a rehearsal of the same piece, at which the students can interview the composer and performers in preparation for a paper...
...Harvard women's soccer vs. Dartmouth. This one's a keeper for its dramatic finish. The 11th-ranked Big Green had the Crimson reeling in the final minutes of the next-to-last Ivy game, but the score remained tied at 1-1. Freshman Keren Gudeman corralled the ball, made an end-to-end rush and centered the ball to junior Sara Noonan for the game-winner with 1:00 left. This victory, more than anything else, earned the Crimson a berth in the NCAA Tournament...
...lost my mother's watch. And look! my last, or next-to-last, of three loved houses went. The art of losing isn't hard to master...
...repulsed even more upon realizing that the killing is more gratuitous than necessary to the progression of the film. Granted, the film makers could pointing to the absurdity of the killing that occurs, but it could be done in more subtle, or at least meaningful ways. The climactic next-to-last scene of mass killing made the woman next to me duck her head and moan "Come on" with disbelief. At this point two men, disgusted with the inanity of it all, grabbed their coats and stormed out of the theater. Fortunately for them they missed the ridiculous miraculous ending...