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...Harvard men’s swimming and diving team lost its first Eastern College Athletic Conference Championship in three years this past weekend, coming in second place to Navy at the Crimson’s home Blodgett Pool. Harvard, who remained in second for all three days of the contest, finished with a score of 512.5 to the first-place Midshipmen’s 703.5. Although Navy appeared to have decisively sunk the Crimson’s battleship during this meet, ECACs are a bit of a diamond in the rough—this three-day event is much more...
...weekend. In doubles action, the three Harvard pairings failed to win a match. WILLIAM & MARY 6, HARVARD 1 The Tribe’s two nationally-ranked players proved too much for the Crimson. At No. 1 singles, No. 86 Katarina Zoricic took down Ko. Though Ko pushed the contest to a deciding third-set tiebreaker, Zoricic finished the match on a hot streak, ultimately downing the senior 4-6, 7-5, 10-2. The loss was Ko’s first of the dual-match season, and she fell to 4-1 in singles play this year. In September...
Etched in sophomore goaltender Ryan Carroll’s helmet is a Latin expression that means strength in faith and war.With crucial implications for the upcoming playoff series on the line, Friday night’s contest against Quinnipiac (15-15-13, 8-10-3 ECAC) was nothing short of war, as both teams traded a combined 18 penalties and battled to the last second of the game.But the Harvard men’s hockey team (8-14-6, 8-7-6 ECAC) killed five power plays and broke a second-period tie to secure a 2-1 win over...
...Welcome to The Crimson's live blog of the first round ECAC Tournament matchup between the Harvard women's hockey team and Cornell. The Crimson took last night's contest, and hopes to come away with a sweep in the best-of-three series...
...flair for the macabre - in one scene, a man who has been tortured by Red Guards commits suicide by driving a nail through his skull - but there's humor in between the horror. Having made a fortune trading scrap, Baldy decides to launch a contest to find the country's most beautiful virgin. The "Inaugural National Virgin Beauty Competition" is a punchy spoof of the Beijing Olympics, complete with salivating sponsors, a city leveled and rebuilt for out-of-town guests and a contestant who wins by sleeping with the judges. Portraits of contemporary China are rarely sharper or more...