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...defending national champion Stanford (23-1) brought the Crimson season to an abrupt halt in the NCAA Round of 16 in Gainesville, Fla., yesterday. The No. 17 Crimson (19-4) had hoped for more against the tournament’s No. 1 seed, but the defeat did not take away from the team’s accomplishments this spring...
...Killed. Sam (Mosquito) Bockarie, 40, West African warlord, former hairdresser and champion disco dancer; in a shootout with Liberian soldiers; near the Ivory Coast-Liberia border. A native of Sierra Leone, Bockarie was one of the most feared guerrilla fighters to emerge from the overlapping civil uprisings in West Africa. In March, a U.N.-backed special court investigating atrocities in Sierra Leone indicted Bockarie for crimes against humanity. In a 1999 interview with a wire service, he admitted, "I cannot tell how many people I have killed...
...Cabot House intramural (IM) sports juggernaut has reclaimed its silver trophy and its place in the sun after unseating first-time champion Adams House is the Straus Cup competition...
...dual season complete, Radcliffe now heads to the Cooper River in Camden, N.J. There, it will meet three-time defending Sprints champion Brown for the second time this season. The Bears handed the Black and White its only loss of the year, by 2.7 seconds on April 27. Radcliffe will also face Princeton, which the Black and White upset on April...
...Sweet 16, where it will face No. 1 Stanford on Thursday. By beating Arizona (10-12), seeded No. 16 by the NCAA and ranked No. 22 by the ITA, Harvard became one of just two unseeded teams to advance past the second round. The Crimson beat Big 12 champion and No. 23 Oklahoma State (17-7) 4-1 in Friday’s first round...