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Coming off of meets against Brown, Yale, and the top racers at the 116th Penn Relays, Harvard seems prepped and ready to compete against the best of the Ancient Eight, particularly Cornell and Princeton who, combined, have won the last 12 men’s outdoor Heps and the last eight women?...

Author: By Alex Sopko, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Crimson Sets Sights On Heps | 5/5/2010 | See Source »

...faster than Usain Bolt, but the Harvard track and field team did not disappoint at the 116th annual Penn Relays...

Author: By Scott A. Sherman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Relay Teams Pace Strong Performances in Pair of Weekend Meets | 4/26/2010 | See Source »

...Thailand is now ranked 116th by world soccer body FIFA, thanks to erratic and occasionally farcical performances that date back to the team's notorious match against Indonesia at the 1998 ASEAN championships. Both teams set out to lose, since the winner would play a stronger team in the next round. Indonesia lost 3-2 after deliberately scoring against themselves. Not surprisingly, perhaps, the Thai national team has a less than fanatical following. Only 25,000 spectators went to watch the team play Japan in Bangkok earlier this year - and most of those were Japanese. (Thailand lost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Englishman in the Land Of Smiles | 12/11/2008 | See Source »

...used applied statistics to save me from romantic desperation when I was worried about replacing a girlfriend. If there were only one right woman for every right man, he advised, they would never find each other. Another time, he stopped me from crossing against the light on Broadway and 116th Street, telling me, "Why risk your whole life to save 10 seconds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milton Friedman, Freedom Fighter | 11/19/2006 | See Source »

...humvee, second in a convoy of five from the 3rd Battalion, 116th Cavalry, deviated ever so slightly from the tracks of the one in front, he says, setting off an antitank mine. The blast blew through the engine block with such force that the armor plating jury-rigged to the floor shattered his ankles instantly. Shrapnel sliced into his left arm, cutting an artery. He would have bled to death right there if three fellow soldiers hadn't rushed him to the field operating room in a record 13 minutes. Military doctors--astonished Braddock had survived--pulled a blood vessel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Wounded Soldier Strives to Return | 2/5/2006 | See Source »

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