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...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...
...captain libero Elizabeth Blotky said. “We’ve been working hard at pulling games out this season. Despite the loss, I think we showed a lot of improvement in terms of just being able to finish a game.” In a nail-biter of a frame in which the Crimson had four game points before sealing the deal, Harvard showed a glimpse of what the team can really do. After freshman outside hitter Kathryn McKinley’s second kill of the frame put the team up 3-2, the Crimson never trailed again...
...lost five straight non-league games dating back to the 2003 season. The last win was a 21-19 nail-biter over visiting Bucknell. Two years later, Cornell should end the streak as the Bison limp into Schoellkopf Field after dropping two straight games to mediocre competition...
...mean, it was a great race—if my hands hadn’t been on that oar, I would have been biting my nails it was so good. Sitting next to an eight-oared screaming thrashing machine for six minutes—it was a nail-biter, and a little nerve racking...