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...last two years of her high school career, she played a pivotal role on her school team, starred for Connecticut Omni, a club team, and travelled with her regional soccer team, to France and England. Connecticut Omni won the national title in 1993, helping her clinch a spot on the American Under-19 national team...
Harvard went on to clinch the doubles point with a come-from-behind victory at second doubles by sophomore Gina Majmudar and freshman Mylin Torres...
...string of solid performances at various invitationals. It went 3-1 at the UMass-Amherst tourney, beating Brown and losing only to Metro-Boston, a team of former college stars. It went 4-1 at its own Harvard Invitational, beating a tough Princeton team to clinch the league championship, and again losing only to Metro-Boston. And it went 3-0 at the MIT Invitational...
...Harvard and throughout the nation, Blacks stood on the threshold of full integration. Having won gains in the political and social areas, Black students at Harvard were crusading to clinch the last gain, to have an Afro-Am program of their own. Former students say this struggle for academic recognition parallels Black people's national quest for complete integration...
...Aviv University in Israel report in the current issue of Nature that they have discovered a nearly intact skull from a male A. afarensis who lived about 200,000 years after Lucy -- call him Lucy's Grandson -- along with several arm bones from other males. The new fossils virtually clinch the view that A. afarensis is one species, placing it more firmly than ever at the root of the human family tree. And because the specimens are nearly a million years younger than the very oldest A. afarensis bones, they argue that Lucy and her relatives were an extraordinarily long...