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...some huge saves for them.” “Both of them are doing what their teams need them to do,” she added. The result proved another example, after the previous weekend’s last-second denouement and Friday’s nail-biter, of how evenly matched the two squads are and promised an exciting conclusion to the series in yesterday’s finale. —Staff writer Jonathan Lehman can be reached at jlehman@fas.harvard.edu...
...Attacking from the outside made for easy points on the inside, with Tay tallying four assists on the night. In the game against Cornell, authority in the post led to the 80-71 Crimson triumph. Rollins took it upon herself to close out what became a nail-biter in the second half, finishing with 19 points and nine rebounds against the Big Red. The powerhouse pair of Rollins and Moretzsohn freed up the perimeter for he outside shot, as Harvard went 8-of-12 behind the arc on the night. Continued impressive post play by Rollins has garnered much league...
...dominance on the court by shutting out her opponent 6-0 in the first set and finished the match with a 6-3 second-set win to lead Harvard to its first-ever semifinal at the tournament.HARVARD 4, GEORGIA 3The Crimson’s first match was a nail-biter against Georgia on Thursday, as the score was tied 3-3 before Harvard clinched the victory in the last match of singles play. “We didn’t really have a lot of confidence-boosting going into the first match—we just did our normal...
...been anything but welcoming to the Harvard women’s basketball team. After a crushing 54-48 loss at UVA last weekend, the Crimson (2-5, 0-0 Ivy) dropped its fourth straight game, 63-47, to Richmond (3-5) yesterday. Harvard fought mightily in a nail-biter at UVA, but erratic defense and ice-cold shooting from the perimeter spelled doom for the Crimson against the Spiders. Still without injured co-captain Jessica Holsey, Harvard struggled mightily from the field yesterday. The Crimson shot 0-of-10 from beyond the arc and hit only 17 field goals...
Syriana is one of three new films, all meaty and intelligent, told in part from the view of a suicide bomber. Hany Abu-Assad's gnarly, poignant Paradise Now is set on the West Bank; Joseph Castelo's knockout nail biter The War Within takes place in New York City. But both have the monomania of an Islamic jihadist and the momentum of a Hitchcock movie about a bomb on a bus. Their simple narratives are the fuse that inexorably leads to the big blast. Syriana also ends with an explosion, but its journey there is through a labyrinth...