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...other hand, Cornell—perhaps feeling extra pressure because of being on the losing end of tiebreakers against both the Crimson and the Dutchmen—tensed up and failed to execute in key moments.Assistant captain Colin Greening, breaking free alone into the Harvard zone, managed to beat Richter with a quick shot late in the second period to equalize and keep the Big Red in the game. But despite all its effort, the Big Red came away with a loss and finished the regular season 0-8 against the ECAC’s top four teams in conference...
...track and field squad looked to finish the indoor season with a strong showing in the two-day Indoor Heptagonal Championships at Cornell’s Barton Hall. The women improved upon last year’s fifth-place finish with 46 points, enough to narrowly beat Penn and Columbia for fourth. The men repeated an eighth-place finish, but improved on their point totals, raking in 14 team points.“We have a lot better team than we have had in the past few years,” senior co-captain Sally Stanton said.The Princeton women?...
...night the Harvard women’s basketball team did not play particularly well, but by nine p.m., the team was ecstatic. Not only did the Crimson (16-9, 9-2 Ivy) come out with a 71-70 win in a nail-biter at Lavietes Pavilion, but Dartmouth also beat league leader Cornell, placing Harvard in pole position to retain its Ivy League crown.Defense and rebounding were the keys for the Crimson in what turned out to be an extremely tough battle against the Lions (9-16, 6-5).“It wasn’t our best...
...some guys who had great results.” The most impressive performance of the weekend came from freshman Richard Hill who took the Malloy Cup, or men’s “B” bracket. In the semifinal round of play, Hill came from behind to beat Yale junior Francis Johnson. Johnson took the first game, 10-8, but Hill rallied back to take the lead, 2-1. Johnson took the fourth match, 9-7, but Hill demolished the Bulldog player, 9-0, in the fifth game to take the match and advance to the final. Similar...
...ever perpetrated by Washington. Since its launch in 2000, the more than $5 billion crusade was meant to help violence-torn Colombia eradicate drug cultivation and trafficking - an effort that is largely regarded a failure. Instead, the billions have not-so-subtly been employed to help the Colombian military beat back the fierce Marxist guerrilla army known as the Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces, or FARC, and the success of that mission was underscored Saturday by the stunning news from Bogota that the army, using Plan Colombia-funded communications technology, had found and killed the FARC's No. 2 leader...