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After a Dartmouth goal pulled the Big Green within one late in the contest, Terry White provided the dagger, giving Harvard the 13-11 win. Once again, the Crimson had pulled off an improbable comeback...

Author: By Scott A. Sherman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard Overcomes Six-Goal Deficit, Beats Big Green | 3/29/2010 | See Source »

...Fish said. “They are playing without their No. 1 player, who is one of the best guys in the country from Brazil, and we are playing without our No. 2 and 3 players—Aba and Andy. They’re not big injuries, but we didn’t want to risk them here, because once you’re in the Ivies, that’s what we are really competing...

Author: By James Yu, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Tennis Splits Pair Of Friday Matches | 3/29/2010 | See Source »

...always wonder the first time when someone hasn’t taken a break, and then they do take a big break, how will they react when they come out?” Rhoads said. “Obviously she’s reacted very well...

Author: By Dennis J. Zheng, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Crimson Wins Its Fourth Straight | 3/29/2010 | See Source »

...Washington continues to insist on those forms that "Hispanic origins are not races." If the Census Bureau lists Filipino and even Samoan as distinct races, Hispanics wonder why they - the product of half a millennium of New World miscegenation - aren't considered a race too. "It's a very big issue," says Angelo Falcón, president of the National Institute for Latino Policy in New York City and a community adviser to the Census. "A lot of Hispanics find the black-white option offensive, and they're asserting their own racial uniqueness." (See the making of Sonia Sotomayor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Still Black or White: Why the Census Misreads Hispanics | 3/29/2010 | See Source »

...recognition that 1492 began a commingling of primarily Iberian, native American and African blood that in turn produced a new race, sometimes called mestizo. That process was perhaps deepest in Mexico - and because Mexico is the origin country of almost two-thirds of U.S. Hispanics, that's a big reason why Washington needs to rethink its definition of race...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Still Black or White: Why the Census Misreads Hispanics | 3/29/2010 | See Source »

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