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Playing in the Hartford Civic Center, the Crimson (15-13) was eliminated from the Big Dance by defending champion Maryland (28-5) by a score of 89-65, snapping a 12-game win streak...
...sketch, the characters stood on a darkened stage and told jokes, turning on flashlights whenever they spoke. In another, a character named XY (Rachel Marie Douglas ’09) explained her ambitions to become “the lightweight polyglot champion of the world...
HARTFORD, Conn.—Entering yesterday’s first-round NCAA Tournament matchup with the defending national champion Maryland Terrapins, coach Kathy Delaney-Smith knew her team would have its hands full. On one hand, it seemed as though Crystal Langhorne, the Terrapins’ leading scorer and rebounder, would be the player to stop. Listed at 6’2, but with a much wider body than anyone Harvard could assign to guard her, Langhorne posed the toughest physical challenge for the young Crimson squad.Then there was sophomore guard Kristi Toliver, who as the nation?...
...national champion Harvard fencing team received a boost in its efforts to repeat late Tuesday night. The NCAA selection committee announced freshman foil fencer Arielle Pensler will be joining nine members of the Crimson in Madison N.J., March 22-25 to vie for the name of top squad in the country. The other fencers received entries into the championship competition through finishing in the top eight in their respective weapons last weekend at the regional meet. These included saber fencers Tim Hagamen, Dan Sachs, and Alexa Weingarden; foil fencers Kai Itameri-Kinter, Enoch Woodhouse, and Misha Goldfeder; and epee fencers...
...Romney, meanwhile, has taken a whisk broom to his record in liberal Massachusetts, where he twice ran for statewide office as a pro-choice candidate dedicated to "full equality for America's gay and lesbian citizens." He now says he opposes Roe v. Wade and describes himself as "a champion of traditional marriage." In Massachusetts, he bucked the National Rifle Association by supporting the Brady Bill and an assault-weapons ban, boasting, "I don't line up with the NRA." Lately he brags that he has joined the gun-rights organization as a life member. He did that in August...