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After being introduced by Dean of Freshmen Thomas A. Dingman, Lenfield also gave a brief speech, in which he said that the award was not only a recognition of the recipient’s potential, but a challenge to “go and use these resources to keep growing, keep exploring, keep acquiring the ideas that will allow you to become that person...
Junior Dean Gibbons and freshman Peter Schwartz scored the first two goals of the fourth quarter to close the deficit to 9-6 with 10:42 left in the game, but the Quakers’ Tim Schwalje put an end to the Crimson’s brief dash of momentum with his third goal of the season to extend the lead to 10-6. Gibbons’s second goal with 6:41 to play closed the gap to 10-7 and put the game within reach for Harvard, but Penn would shut out the Crimson for the remainder...
...range of allies against myriad opponents. The guerrilla war against the U.K.'s colonial administration in post-World War II Malaysia and the stubborn conflict in Northern Ireland endowed British commanders with invaluable expertise in counterinsurgency. They learned different lessons in the Falklands, Bosnia and Sierra Leone. (See a brief history of WWII movies...
...sale - the extent of support for the fans' rebellion can be seen on match day when, as an act of protest, many thousands have discarded United's red colors for the green and gold of the railway workers who established the club well over a century ago. (See a brief history of David Beckham...
...return the territory in exchange for an end to the conflict between the two countries, which have officially been at war since the creation of the Jewish state in 1948. But the Syrian government appears no longer content to confine itself to symbolic posturing. (See "A Brief History of the Golan Heights...