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...think it all starts in recruiting,” said Harvard coach Katey Stone. “You recruit the right kind of kid—the kid with great character and attitude and strong work ethic...
...It’s great to have the Olympians, because they raise the level of play for everyone,” Stone said, “but it’s just too easy to shut one or two people down on the ice. You have to have a unit of six out on the ice all the time where there are threats all over the place...
...Cornell is in the process of rebuilding their program and I think they’re doing a really good job,” Stone said. “They play really hard, and really try to play within their system. Their goaltender hung in there, but we just got to be too much for them...
...ourselves moving—we moved the puck instead of overhandling the puck,” Stone said. “That made a difference. We put the pucks to the net a lot faster, and that’s when good things happen. You’re never going to score a goal if the puck’s on your
...Linguist and the Emperor (Ballantine; 271 pages), by Daniel Meyerson, Champollion was a dreamy, solitary kid who mouthed off in class, but as a schoolboy, he assembled a 2,000-page dictionary of Coptic, an ancient Egyptian language. Luckily for him, French soldiers in Egypt soon discovered the Rosetta stone, a chunk of gray and pink rock with the same text written on it in both Greek and Egyptian hieroglyphics, which no one had yet deciphered. Unlocking hieroglyphics was Champollion's great work, and Meyerson tells the story as a passionate linguistic love affair. After finally solving the mystery, Champol...