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...been twenty days since the Harvard men’s hockey team last played, and nearly two months since its last game at Bright Hockey Center.Facing the same two teams it had battled in its last pair of games, the Crimson found itself suffering from the same problem it had dealt with before—having to come from behind in the third period.On Friday, it rallied to win 3-1 against Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (11-12-3, 5-5-3 ECAC). The next day, the Crimson fell to Union (12-11-5, 5-6-3) by a score...
...men’s side, with a combined time of 2:24.59 giving him a 40th place finish in the giant slalom. Senior Sam Simon wasn’t far behind in 42nd with a time of 2:31.99. Harvard skied the giant slalom events without a pair of its top skiers. Junior Dan Tsai injured his knee in a fall during the first run, while freshman Jake Segal was disqualified for losing his ski on the first trip down. Battling through a broken thumb that was sustained on Friday, junior captain Eric Ode was the top finisher in slalom...
...lugers Mark Grimmette and Brian Martin are wearing skintight racing suits, perched atop a 2-ft.-wide sled. Martin sits behind Grimmette, legs straddling his teammate. "I've got no traction on my feet," yells Martin. Grimmette, like a longtime nanny, instantly wipes them down with his gloves. The pair, teammates for 10 years, alternate deep breaths. "All right, be aggressive," says Grimmette. "Yup," replies Martin. With that, the U.S.'s best-ever Olympic luge team shoots from the starting block. Now supine on the sled, they hit speeds of 80 m.p.h. on the icy track, Grimmette atop Martin...
Since skating routines are inherently sensual, off-ice contact is inevitable. Love has certainly worked for Melissa Gregory and Denis Petukhov, the other top U.S. dancing pair. Gregory met Petukhov, a Russian, five years ago on an Internet message board for skaters. Petukhov flew to Colorado to test the pairing. "If it wasn't going to work, I was going to put him right back on the plane and say, 'Adios, I'm going to college,'" says Gregory. The pair clicked on the ice, started dating after about two weeks and were married in five months. Skeptics chirped that Gregory...
...packages for their truck. When the returning workers descend on Tuxpan for the holidays in December, the local Yamaha motorcycle dealer has a field day. Rents in Tuxpan now average around $250 a month; completed houses can cost well over $100,000. Nike shoes cost up to $200 a pair. Seafood restaurants in town charge $10 a plate. "In America, we could go to restaurants whenever we wanted to," says the teenager Carlos. "Here, we can't afford it anymore." And the cycle of migration is self-propelling. Bartender Alfonso Mayo López, 43, lost his job in the fall...