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...Stamatis said. “Brown tried to put a lot of pressure on us. If we [have] an opportunity to counter, he’s the best asset we have on the counterattack.”And while the Harvard offense was firing all cylinders, the defense was bend-but-not-break, allowing only one goal in 16 attempted shots.“We knew going into the game what to expect from Brown,” Fucito said. “With that being said, we try to play soccer the way it’s supposed...
...could think of Krugman as a sort of highbrow version of [a magician]who goes around telling the real story of how rivals bend spoons." - Michael Hirsch, Newsweek...
...Harvard men’s tennis team split over the weekend with mixed results. The Crimson’s captain, Chris Clayton, played at the Intercollegiate Tennis Association All-American Championship in Tulsa, Okla., while the rest of the team traveled to South Bend, Ind. to play in Notre Dame’s Tom Fallon Invitational. It was a frustrating long weekend for Clayton, who, having beaten the nation’s No. 17 player in mid-September, came in with high expectations for success against his elite competition. “I had one of those days where just...
...strings, and an eye for the improbable. It was a singularly liberating feeling. In interviews with sociologists, many Americans describe the feeling of moving around, rather than the right to vote or civic engagement, as their strongest association of ‘freedom.’ Peering around the bend of a switchbacked road, it wasn’t difficult...
While Coburn has been willing to bog down the Senate to try to stop pork, McCain stops short of drawing the line. He tends to bend institutions without breaking them; he never alienated his caucus enough to lose his chairmanship, and even Cochran has endorsed McCain's candidacy now that he's the Republican nominee. "McCain used to make great speeches about all the garbage in military spending bills, especially after 9/11, but he'd do nothing to stop it," says the Center for Defense Information's Winslow Wheeler, a former GOP staffer who supports Obama for President. McCain...