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...Performance under adverse last-minute conditions is what the Harvard secondary will need to erase the demons from last season. Although one of the Crimson's main goals in the off-season has been practicing the two-minute drill, in the end, it is that desire to succeed that will be necessary for this team to perform in the clutch...
...Harvard will enter its tilt with Penn tomorrow with momentum on its side following its 7-1 blowout of Vermont. That contest saw the Crimson perform much better in all aspects of its game than it did in a 3-0 loss to Texas A&M the previous week. Harvard had much working against its favor in that opening game, not least of which was the fact that it had only been back on campus practicing for just over a week. The Aggies, on the other hand, already had several games under their belts by then...
...Rocks area of Sydney Cove, thronged with tourists buying opals and boomerangs, and an aesthetic and financial delight to the city fathers, was saved from destruction in the early 1970s only through the intervention of the Builders' Labourers Federation and its members' "green ban" refusal to perform demolition work. The old buildings of Woolloomooloo owe their existence to a similar -but depressingly rare-triumph of the popular will over developers' check books...
Carr said his decision to found the theater is unrelated to last spring's announcement that the Faculty of Arts and Sciences would take control of the Hasty Pudding's theater space. But it may provide a boon to the ART, which used to hold performances in the Hasty Pudding building and may perform in the new space...
...next day the Q'ero perform a salutation at the U.N. General Assembly Hall, blowing on sacred conchs and flutes. Their prayers capture the essence of the summit's environmental theme: "I am he who greets and takes care/ Of this sweet and beautiful Mother Earth/ to which I will one day return." Their cosmology--which, among other things, holds animals, plants and rivers as the equals of humans--seems ill-suited to urban life. But they are more relaxed than the average New Yorker parachuting into Cuzco. They are completely unfazed when Turner high-fives them during a recess...