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...season continues.The Harvard women’s water polo team finished second in the College Water Polo Association (CWPA) Northern Division Championships at Blodgett Pool this weekend, clinching a berth in next week’s Eastern Championships in Providence, R.I.The key game was the clincher: yesterday’s semifinal match against Brown, which the Crimson won 6-5. Harvard opened the tournament with a 14-4 win over Utica on Saturday and also lost to top-seeded Hartwick 12-2 on Saturday and 10-4 in the championship game.The top two teams in the tournament receive automatic bids...
...nothing else this incident, which has seized the public and political focus in Iraq, shows that in a war of perception reality is not always the clincher. Both sides continue to contradict each other, and though a number of investigations have been launched, evincing the truth may no longer matter quite so much as it should. As an American officer conceded, echoing many before over the past three years, in the propaganda game "the enemy information operations machine is very sophisticated, they're constantly beating us to the punch". An American soldier who advised on the scene during the raid...
...points of the contest against ESU. The match was a nail-biter from the start, with neither team gaining a significant advantage in any given game. Each of the four games came down to the last few points, and the match’s fourth frame—the clincher for Harvard—went several points above 30 before the Crimson was able finally to win by two. In the final minutes of the fourth game Harvard jumped out to several one-point leads, only to see ESU tie the score on the ensuing play. As a raucous home...
...offer, but Solley picked up the rebound, and after going around the net, beat the Saints’ goalie for the game-winner with just under six minutes left to play. Junior Jennifer Sifers—who assisted on Solley’s first goal—added a clincher as time ran down. The 3-1 upset victory was a far cry from the last contest between the two squads when St. Lawrence won 3-0, but the Crimson had pressured the Saints for the whole contest. “Even though we lost last time, we hit three...
...evening. With Raimondi streaking up the right side, Brine joined the rush for a 2-on-1. Raimondi sent a crisp cross-ice pass over onto the stick of Brine, whose forward momentum carried her into Lane and rolled the puck over the line for the hat trick clincher. For plays like these, and her success with rebounds, Brine deflected praise onto her new running mates. “Just in the right place at the right time, able to thwack them home,” Brine said. “Basically just hard work from my linemates...