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...found left wing Allie Thunstrom wide open for an easy score two minutes in the game. Thunstrom leads the Eagles with 23 goals.Eight minutes later, the two teams fought for possession in front of Harvard’s net, and B.C. center Kelli Stack was able to put her stick on the puck and push it past sophomore goalie Britanny Martin for the Eagles’ second goal of the game.The period ended with the Crimson facing a two-goal deficit.“I don’t think we were completely ready to go when the puck dropped...
...good that comes out of this game if you don’t win,” Stone says. There is only sophomore goalie Brittany Martin, who minded net for the duration, sprawled in the crease watching the game’s final roll of the puck, off the stick of Anna McDonald, trickle over the goal line, and into the cage to set off the BC celebration. And her counterpart, Eagles rookie Molly Schaus, a red-haired native of Natick, Mass. being just better enough to prevail, turning away a mind-numbing 73 shots in the process. Then Schaus...
...into each season with a fresh crop of highly-touted freshmen. Duke, UNC, Arizona, and UCLA fans out there (I know you’ve somehow made it into Harvard) might be dumbfounded by this, but I’m happy that the stars of Crimson sports almost always stick it out through four years here, even when Cambridge is far from where their athletic brilliance could have taken them. A recent article in the New York Times sports section bore the headline “College Offers Attractive Pit Stop on Way to the N.B.A...
...With reference to the "stay the course" rhetoric: When attacked for having changed his opinion on a matter, Winston Churchill elegantly replied, "My views are in a harmonious process, which keeps them in relation to the current movement of events." Only fools stick to their ideas after they have been proved wrong. The world awaits evidence that Bush is no fool. Lennart Lordin Karlskrona, Sweden...
...teachers are to be held accountable, the measuring stick used for evaluating them must be much better than the one NCLB now employs. Currently, students are expected to reach a state-determined level of proficiency at a school in order for it to avoid being identified as a “failing” school, or, in bureaucratic parlance, “in need of improvement.” Reaching a state-determined level is usually easy for those students that come from supportive family backgrounds but can be challenging for those coming from disadvantaged ones. As a result, schools...