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...team to 1-2 for the first time in recent memory. But with just one game remaining last November, the Crimson found itself back in the hunt with an undefeated 6-0 mark in the Ancient Eight, on the heels of a six-game win streak, and on the brink of its first Ivy title in three years. The foe standing in its way? Who else but 9-0 Yale—the then-No. 11 squad in the nation, which featured All-American and eventual Ivy League Player of the Year Mike McLeod and New England Coach...
...game romp, the Crimson quickly developed a reputation as a second-half team. Despite Harvard’s sterling talent and physical prowess, its imperfections would soon come to a head.The match against the Bears carried major Ivy League implications, and the game teetered on the brink of physical calamity with every 50-50 ball. Despite missing a penalty kick in the first half, Harvard willed its way into overtime with sophomore Kwaku Nyamekye’s equalizer in the 83rd minute.“[Kwaku] reads the game very well,” head coach John Kerr said...
...Obama claimed that allowing Trinity to get back to tending to its family was a key part of why he was resigning his membership - as much as what his association with the church was doing to his presidential aspirations. After all, Obama's stunning rise to the brink of being the Democratic presidential nominee has cast an unusually harsh light on his place of worship. Trinity's roughly 8,500 members makes it among the largest congregations in Chicago - and the largest in the United Church of Christ, a predominately white protestant denomination. When Wright assumed leadership of Trinity...
...part of the same Sudanese government of national unity - had turned their guns on each other since they signed a U.S.-brokered peace deal three years ago. Still, north-south enmity runs deep, and the new fighting has pushed the region back to the edge. "We are on the brink of a new war," was the assessment of Pagan Amum, secretary-general of the southern Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM). Tensions have been building for months. In a report on the region in March, the International Crisis Group (ICG) warned the situation "could quickly become national... It is uncertain...
...election a day earlier promised an end to 19 months of grave political crisis, assassinations and sectarian street battles that brought this tiny Mediterranean state to the brink of civil war. It also marks a new chapter in Lebanon's tortured history, one in which the Iran-backed militant group Hizballah is now recognized as the country's dominant political and military force - at Washington's expense. Proof of that was quick in coming: Suleiman's first official meeting as Lebanon's head of state was scheduled to be with Manuchehr Mottaki, the foreign minister of Iran...