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Until recently – this week, in fact – we hadn’t considered the gastronomic possibilities that the pairing of oysters and whisky might bring. Sure, they're each tasty, manly things in their own right – but that doesn't mean that they're as destined as say, bacon and chicken, or sex ...
![Things went from bad to worse for the men's hockey team this past weekend. The Jumbos trekked to Vermont and then to Western Massachusetts on a brutal road trip during which they dropped two more contests to Middlebury and Williams. Now, head coach Brian Murphy's squad, which has not seen a conference victory since Dec. 6, sits in the NESCAC cellar with a dismal 1-11 conference record.After falling to host school Middlebury by a score of 3-0 on Friday evening, Tufts faced NESCAC leader and national No. 8 Williams the following day. Despite staying within one goal of the Ephs for almost two periods, the Jumbos struggled to take advantage of several power plays, instead allowing Williams to pull away with a devastating 6-2 result. As always for the Jumbos, things started out manageably. For much of the first period, Williams and Tufts traded possessions with each contesting in the offensive zone, but neither managing to find the back of the net. Midway through the opening stanza, junior defenseman Shawn Power was whistled for roughing, but the Jumbos' defense was able to kill the resulting two-minute power play.After roughly 15 minutes of play, things started to unravel for Tufts. At the 15:37 mark, junior co-captain defenseman Blake Edwards was called for hitting from behind. The referees, declaring it not only a five-minute major but also game misconduct, sent Edwards straight past the sin-bin and into the locker room, leaving Tufts' defense to kill the penalty without its back-line leader.Williams did not hesitate to take advantage of the ensuing power play. Freshman forward Tyler Young beat Tufts senior goalie Greg Jenkins with a close-range shot to put Williams on the board going into the first intermission.The Jumbos killed the remainder of the penalty, allowing no further damage as the first period drew to a close. At the start of the second period, Tufts earned its own power play opportunity when Williams' sophomore defenseman Greg Johnson was sent to the box for interference. The Jumbos wasted no time: sophomore forward Luke Griffin worked with linemates Power and freshman Conal Lynch to tie the game up at the 1:02 mark.Just as Tufts looked ready to overcome Edwards' early exit and jump back in the game, Williams climbed on top again with a wrist-shot from sophomore forward Matt Werner coming just nine seconds after Griffin's strike."The shift immediately after a goal is one of the most important parts of the game because it can dictate the momentum," junior forward Andrew White said. "The quick goal by Williams after we tied the game up was due to a temporary mental lapse, and, unfortunately, they were able to capitalize."In the 13th minute of play, the Ephs struck twice more, this time notching goals off the sticks of rookie forward George Hunkele, who beat Jenkins on his blocker side, and sophomore defenseman Zander Masucci, who finished an unassisted hook past the keeper.Trailing 4-1 as the period wound down, Tufts freshman defenseman Sean Kavanagh found the back of the net for his first collegiate score, pulling his team within two at the close of the second period.Tufts entered the final period with the game within reach, and hoped to challenge the conference leaders down the stretch. The Jumbos pressured, but their defense ultimately broke down in the fifth minute. Freshman defenseman Frankie Mork ripped a slap shot from the left point, sending it in front of Jenkins' cage where junior forward Alex DeBaere was able to tip the puck past him for the Ephs' fifth goal of the contest. Down the stretch, Williams keeper junior Sean Dougherty made a series of stops to keep Tufts from pulling closer."Dougherty did play well, but Williams' [defense] did a good job keeping our forwards on the perimeter," White said. "They were physical and aggressive on our forwards and limited opportunities ... around the net."With the game growing increasingly out of reach, Williams capped things off in the 12th minute when senior forward co-captain Paul Steinig took advantage of a two-minute hooking penalty on Tufts sophomore forward Dom Granato, completing the six-goal rout."Williams did a good job playing within their systems," White said. "They dumped the puck and forechecked hard against our defense. Anytime you play against a team that forechecks hard it can wear on the defense, and with the absence of Blake [Edwards], we struggled to get the puck out of our zone."In the closing seven minutes, the two teams were whistled for a combined five penalties, bringing the game total to 10 in an intensely emotional matchup. Although the Jumbos' own frustrations certainly contributed to their physical play down the stretch, the Ephs matched the intensity with plenty of chippy play of their own."We usually see the most success when we are playing physical and outworking other teams," Edwards said. "After I got kicked out, [the] guys may have held back a little bit, but I don't really think it affected the physicality of the game. It probably hurt the most that we had to play with only five [defensemen] after I was gone. As I said earlier, we try to be physical every game, but unfortunately frustration is high at this point of the season, and it can affect how you play sometimes."12](https://snworksceo.imgix.net/ttd/bb2be0bd-d18d-46be-9fe9-75d0e58c1955.sized-1000x1000.?w=1500&ar=4%3A3&fit=crop&crop=faces&facepad=3&auto=format)
Last year, Jamie Dimon, chief executive of JPMorgan Chase & Co., was adamant that he would fight mortgage put-back claims being pursued by big investors like BlackRock. On the surface, Dimon appeared to be indicating that he was no Brian Moynihan, the chief executive of Bank of America who cut the ...
![The defending national champion Jumbos, ranked No. 1 in the preseason poll, picked up where they left off on Saturday, outshooting NESCAC rival Bates 27 to zero en route to a 1-0 win.Several first year players logged their first collegiate minutes, while the squad's more experienced members held down the fort. Junior forward Brittany Norfleet took over for Lia Sagerman (LA '13) and Kelsey Perkins (LA '13) on corners, and sophomore Dakota Sikes-Keilp played the striker role. Meanwhile, juniors Colleen Golja and Katie Koch stepped up where Liza Wetzel (LA '13) and co-captain Rachel Gerhardt (LA '13) formerly bolstered the defensive end.I think that everyone did a great job [Saturday]](https://snworksceo.imgix.net/ttd/ac27d7b0-2523-428d-824a-5653b84ecdc5.sized-1000x1000.?w=1500&ar=4%3A3&fit=crop&crop=faces&facepad=3&auto=format)
If summer 2013 was owned by the Scandinavian slick-back, the winter to come is about an altogether more comfortable look – the neat sweep, as seen recently on Justin Timberlake.Though a sharply shaved back and sides combined with a strictly combed, wet-look top can look boyishly neat (see Becks and ...
While Kenneth Branagh struggled to define a world in the original Thor, Alan Taylor has the gift of audience familiarly with its sequel Thor: The Dark World. Branagh’s original film took a long time to find its footing and never quite explored how great the characters of Thor and Loki could be. ...
Google, one of the world's largest users of data, may finally be making good on a five year-old patent to build offshore data centers — cooled and powered by the ocean, and potentially beyond reach of the government.An investigative report by CNET Friday found a great deal of evidence connecting ...
Google is officially part of the ultra-exclusive $1,000 club.The search giant's stock topped $1,000 a share on Friday for the first time in its history, making it one of only a select few businesses including Priceline, Seaboard and Berkshire Hathaway to hit that milestone.The company's stock ...
Beer. Perhaps an odd thing to create a bucket list about.But with the number of craft beers continuing to mutiply and the tipple's popularity soaring around the world, there are more must-tries than ever before.Here we ask Meantime Brewing’s Jack Stones – the UKs Youngest Beer Sommelier – ...
I’m never offline anymore.I have Wi-Fi at home and at the office, nearly every hotel or coffee shop on the planet offers connectivity, and for the rare in-between times, my phone serves as a perfectly usable (if slightly awkward) mechanism for getting on the internet. The only time I can’t get online ...
For all the think pieces, for all the open letters from pop-music doyennes, for all the twerk-induced pearl-clutching she’s inspired, the latest, brazen incarnation of Miley Cyrus isn’t all that different from her G-rated predecessor. In days of yore—or 2006, which is basically antiquity in zeitgeist ...
It comes in the form of an iPhone app, which you download to your handset and then open up while you’re standing in the National Mall — the green space between the Lincoln Memorial and Capitol building. As you move around the area, the music changes.“For example,” Ryan Holladay, one half of ...
There’s not much to dislike about CHVRCHES’ debut album of unblemished, grandiose, subtly morose synth pop, which is remarkably engineered for a first record. In just a year, the Glaswegian internet phenoms have crafted something that recalls the moody, cohesive, dreamy pop of M83’s 2011 hit, ...
In the olden days, the members of Coldplay were primarily concerned with keeping pace with U2. But times change, and Chris Martin and Co. recently claimed that they’re now trying to compete with pop acts from across the genre spectrum—think Justin Bieber, Kanye West and Adele. With global hegemony ...
“Anyone still standing in the way of this bipartisan reform should at least explain why,” Mr. Obama said to repeated applause in the East Room. “If House Republicans have new and different additional ideas for how we should move forward, then we should hear them. I will be listening.”The Senate ...
Without any effort, we remain tethered to the Earth. Through, what very quickly after birth becomes an automated body function, we take in breath. In many respects, we live without really trying very hard to do so. As we age, two seemingly unrelated phenomena occur: we accumulate more and more baggage/emotional ...
It's about that time of year again when some college seniors start interviewing for jobs in finance.The interview process on Wall Street is known for being extremely nerve-wracking. We've heard all the interview horror stories and we've seen those lists of the incredibly challenging questions ...
The Center for the Humanities at Tufts (CHAT) and the Department of Anthropology yesterday hosted internationally renowned poet, translator and performance artist Jerome Rothenberg at Fung House for an event dedicated to the celebration of his most recent work, "Eye of Witness: A Jerome Rothenberg Reader."
Not since the 4th Earl of Sandwich called for two pieces of bread and a slab of meat to eat at his card table has there been a better time to enjoy a sarnie. And if you’re the sort of person who tends to grab a sad ham and cheese roll on the run for your lunch, then you are really missing a trick. ...
Fitness instructors love January. The New Year heralds in a procession of guilt-ridden, turkey-weight-carrying slobs making their annual pilgrimage to the gym to lose the winter bulge.Sadly, there’s a lot of bullshit out there on how to sort out your body. In short, a lot of what the ‘experts’ ...
Next Tuesday Apple will hold its annual pre-Christmas press conference, where speculation suggests it will unveil more than one new product to put on Santa's list. (Invites read 'We still have a lot to cover'.)In decreasing level of likelihood they could include: a new iPad Mini, a new MacBook ...
