Word: championed
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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...
...their dancing shoes for only the sixth time in the program’s history. The numbers may be slightly changed this time around, but the odds are similarly stacked against Harvard. On Monday, the Selection Committee assigned Harvard a number two seed and matched it with defending national champion Maryland. Once again, it appears that the women are in for a David-versus-Goliath battle. But if the dramatic upset serves as proof, the women have shown already that counting them out early on is a definite mistake...
...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...