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Pitching holds the greatest question marks for the Crimson as last year's staff aces, Bob Baxter and Mike Dorrington, have departed. The ace of this year's staff figures to be live-armed junior Sean Johnston, who was 2-3 with one complete game in ten appearances last year...
...nine divisions of the 125,000-strong Republican Guard were supposed to be Saddam's strategic reserve, his fearsome ace in the hole, the best-equipped and -trained of his soldiers. If the allies broke through fixed Iraqi defenses and the armored divisions backing them up, the Guard would pounce and drive the intruders back. When the allied invasion came, the Iraqi plan fell apart. Coalition forces broke through in several places along the Kuwaiti border and swept into Iraq far to the west. Without air reconnaissance, neither Baghdad nor the Guard's division commanders knew where the main thrust...
Harvard finally managed to put the game away, 16-14, on a Vince Marin ace and a booming spike by sophomore outside hitter Albert Kim which brought the fans to their feel. With the match knotted at two games apiece, the Crimson appeared to have enough momentum going into the deciding contest for a come-from-behind victory...
Harvard was playing without its ace, Co-Captain Ralph James. James re-injured his shoulder in practice on Thursday, and Matt McClain was forced to fill the void in the starting lineup. McClain did not play like an understudy, however, as he led the Crimson's first-half surge. The sophomore guard hit three three-pointers within a two-minute span as Harvard jumped to an early 11-point lead...
Editor's Note: The debate over how to ace Harvard exams without actually studying has raged for decades. On June 12, 1950, Donald Carswell '50 published his blueprint for success "Beating the System," for which he received the Dana Reed Prize in 1951 for excellence in undergraduate writing. The Crimson has reprinted it as a service to readers ever since. In 1962, the infamous, anonymous "Grader's Reply" first appeared...