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Just as Tiger Woods will always remember the first hole-in-one he shot, most of the members of Harvard’s squad will always remember the first time they beat a ranked opponent...
...thought that on a different day, we probably could have won and beat that team,” said sophomore goalie Laurel McCarthy, who recorded seven saves. “We were having bad luck with our shooting, but I think it’ll be exciting to play them again. I don’t think the score reflected how close the game was, which was a little disappointing...
...Helena Star in 1882, "one of which - the Zinfandel Claret - we have rarely seen equaled." Most wine aficionados believe that the 1976 "Judgment of Paris" - the historic blind tasting by French critics who, to their own shock, preferred American entries to French - was the first time the New World beat out Old World wines. But the Franco-Swiss is a reminder that Napa Valley has been holding its own since the end of the 19th century, when American wineries regularly won awards at expositions and fairs from Paris to St. Louis. That momentum, however, screeched to a halt with Prohibition...
...That’s one of those games that if we played them 10 times, we aren’t going to beat them 10 times,” Kennifer said. “They probably aren’t going to beat us 10 times either, but they have a very strong team and a very strong program. We are playing up to them. We did some good things in that game, but not enough to shut them down...
...great American job-creation machine always has been and will continue to be private enterprise. The problem is that companies are beat-up from the longest economic contraction since the Great Depression. Plenty of economists think the worst is now behind us, but firms are still plagued by uncertainty about how fast the economy will recover. Nor can they plan responsibly without knowing the bottom-line costs of the massive new initiatives out of Washington on health care reform and carbon-emission regulation. Even companies that are financially fit often don't feel like taking the risk of ramping...