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Last Wednesday marked a strange assemblage of anniversaries: the 145th of Abraham Lincoln’s assassination, the 98th of the Titanic’s iceberg collision, and the 71st of John Steinbeck’s magnum opus, “Grapes of Wrath.” Among these decaying men and doomed machines stood Simone de Beauvoir, her death one year shy of its quarter-century mark. Although Lincoln gave us “four score and forty years,” the Titanic spawned an eponymous Hollywood blockbuster, and Steinbeck became the bane of freshman reading lists, Beauvoir?...
...Saturday will not be the first time that the two countries have clashed on the soccer field. In July, a youth match saw Armenia win 2 -1. But Turkey's senior national side is currently ranked tenth in the world, and it would be a major upset for 98th-ranked Armenia to prevail. While Turkey is a soccer-mad nation (some 5,000 fans are traveling to the match on special visas issued by the Armenian government ) organizers are hoping that the two sides will keep their passions on the pitch. As for embracing the opposing side after the match...
Keeping up with past patterns, the Harvard ski team finished ninth for the third time this season at the 98th annual Dartmouth Winter Carnival this weekend. In the last two seasons, the Crimson has earned eight consecutive ninth-place results and has stayed consistent so far this winter. The Big Green came out on top, pushing past the 10 other competing North East schools. The defending NCAA champions exercised their home course advantage, earning a team total of 725 points. Of the Crimson’s 256 points, 29 were put up by sophomore Christopher Kinner on the Alpine side...
Also contributing to the team were Ryan Hafer at 19th overall with a time of 25:53, sophomore Vito Cannavo at 24th in 26:03, and freshman Ryan Neely, who finished 98th with a time...
...time of 20:50.1. Her time was just over 45 seconds behind race winner Renee Metevier of Colorado. Harvard’s next best runner following Scherf was sophomore Laura Maludzinski. Maludzinski was the only other Crimson runner in the top 100, finishing in 22:10.8 and earning 98th overall...