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Losses sting especially hard, after all, when they come to an opponent whom one has beaten for 16 consecutive years. They sting when one hears beforehand that there is a new breeze invigorating the Harvard program, when one actually begins to believe that perhaps things are different...
...island's coral with concrete and rebuilding roads that buckled after bomb tests. But the legionnaires worked in areas contaminated by radiation, Whiting insisted. Someone not French had to clean up debris after explosions. Blood and urine samples were taken weekly, but no results were revealed. He was beaten up, he said, for asking a single question about the effectiveness of Geiger counters...
Dave McTaggart, 63, sailed his boat the Vega into the exclusion zone in 1972 and '73, and was almost beaten to death by the French. Now he's returned with the Vega. Yes, he says, Greenpeace will stay on at Mururoa. He answers the radiophone. "Look," he says to someone in Papeete, "I need to know exactly which of those parliamentarians is prepared to violate the zone. Yeah, yeah, call me tomorrow...
...anyone doubts the intensity with which Ivy coaches recruit against one another, one need look no further than the aftermath of the unfortunate incident last spring, when a prospective recruit was beaten by another player during a campus visit. According to several alumni athletic boosters, other league coaches did not miss a beat in using the incident to convince high school players that Cambridge was not the place for them...
Noonan and junior Meg Kassakian headline Harvard's defensive corps. Both are rugged players, rarely beaten by the opposition...