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Harvard crowned its first Ivy League champion of the 2006-07 school year on Saturday afternoon. Needing a single win to clinch the league crown, the Harvard men’s soccer team (13-4-0, 6-1-0 Ivy) beat Columbia 3-1 on Ohiri Field, maintaining its half-game advantage in the standings over Penn. It was the fitting end to a late-season run of Crimson dominance. Harvard closed the year on an eight-game winning streak in which it averaged more than three goals per game. Paced by sensational freshman Andre Akpan and two starters...
After winning seven straight games, the Harvard men’s soccer team can clinch its first Ivy League title in 10 years on Saturday with a win over Columbia at Ohiri Field. Last Sunday, Harvard (12-4, 5-1 Ivy League) crushed Dartmouth for its fifth Ivy League victory of the season, putting destiny firmly in the hands of the Crimson. Harvard hosts Columbia (7-7-2, 0-4-2 Ivy) in its final game of the season in good standing to win the league title, which they can do outright with a victory or a Penn loss. Harvard?...
...defeat again with a tight 34-32 win in the fourth frame.“We changed the lineup a few times,” Cebron said, “and we really adapted to the situation.”Harvard closed out the match, 15-13, to clinch at least a share of the tournament title.HARVARD 3, DARTMOUTH 2The rematch. Double or mediocrity.After facing each other a week ago at the Malkin Athletic Center, the two Ivy League travel partners took the court again in Dartmouth’s territory. Though the Big Green, itching for revenge, provided...
...that the features of the skull cited as evidence that it belonged to a separate species?such as a nearly absent chin?can be found in modern Flores pygmies. The fact that pygmies can still be found living just down the road from the original excavation site helped clinch the argument for Robert Eckhardt, a developmental geneticist at Pennsylvania State University and a PNAS paper co-author. "If you look throughout the area, there are plenty of populations where the average male is under a meter and a half and females are shorter," he says. "If the people there...
...lack of a chin-could be seen among modern Flores pygmies. It's that last part - the fact that a population of pygmies can still be found living just a stone's throw away from the Liang Bua cave where the original bones were found - that helped clinch the argument for Robert Eckhardt, a developmental geneticist at Penn State and another author of the PNAS paper. "If you look throughout the area, there are plenty of populations where the average male is under a meter and a half [4'11''] and females are shorter," he says. "If the people there...