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History can repeat itself, but this is plain crazy. For the fifth time this season, the No. 14 Harvard men’s hockey team allowed a significant late goal, earning only a 2-2 tie against No. 20 Boston University despite dominating the Terriers in the first period last night at the Bright Hockey Center. After struggling initially to deal with the Crimson’s transition game and quick puck movement, BU (3-4-2, 3-3-1 Hockey East) took advantage of five Harvard penalties in the final 40 minutes to get its offense back on track...
...looks from the blokes at the bar. THC: What struck you about Keira Knightley that connected her to this quintessential Jane Austen heroine in your mind? JW: At first I thought Keira would be too beautiful to play Elizabeth Bennett. It’s the story of a fairly plain girl who gets a catch because of the liveliness of her mind. I went to this hotel bar, and in the darkened corner sat Keira. She was a right scruffy little thing and a proper tomboy. Keira says exactly what she thinks and she has an incredible lively quick...
...performance in a bad movie. On the other hand, flops do not a successful acting career make. But however well RZA does as an actor, the Wu-Tang Abbott’s future will be worth catching whether you are a crab, a chef, a cherry head or a plain old college student.--Staff writer Scoop A. Wasserstein can be reached at wasserst@fas.harvard.edu...
Although the lure of the Harvard name is key, it also makes plain economic sense for many international students to choose Cambridge...
...Washington's interest in bolstering the alliance is plain, so is Tokyo's. Koizumi has made a strategic decision to yoke his nation ever more tightly to the U.S. as a buffer to the seemingly inexorable rise of China, measured not least by the rapid modernization of its armed forces. During his four and a half years in office, Koizumi has pushed Japan and its so-called Self-Defense Force into a much higher profile on the world stage. In 2002, the Japanese destroyer Kirishima set sail for the Indian Ocean to help refuel U.S. and allied ships involved...