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...That’s the first thing that comes to mind.”The Crimson (1-6) dispatched San Jose State 83-62 to claim its first victory of the season. Harvard fell 96-54 to No. 16 California in its first game of the Contra Costa Times Classic on Saturday.“After yesterday, we came out strong tonight,” said sophomore forward Katie Rollins after the win over San Jose State. “We didn’t make a trip all the way across the country to lose...
...winless Harvard women’s basketball team (0-5) will fly to the Golden State this weekend for a pair of games against western competition. The Crimson meets No. 16 California, the Contra Costa Times Classic tournament host, in its opening game at 8 p.m. tomorrow night. Then it will take on the winner of the San Jose State-Arkansas State semifinal at 2 p.m. on Sunday. Harvard has struggled in the early going in 2006. The squad was handed a 15-point defeat by BYU on Wednesay night in its first meeting with a ranked opponent. That loss...
...tough battle against the nation’s #23 team should prove immediately valuable experience for this young Crimson team. 16th-ranked California awaits a Friday evening contest with Harvard as the host of this weekend’s Contra Costa Times Classic in Berkeley, Calif. The Crimson will face either Arkansas or San Jose State on Sunday evening before returning to Boston for a Tuesday night match-up with Boston University...
...wealthy Nicaraguan bankerin the 1980s when Daniel Ortega stole his six-bedroom house. Ortega, who was then Nicaragua's President, called it a justified "confiscation" on behalf of the Marxist revolution that he and his Sandinista Front were leading. Morales became a leader of the U.S.-backed contra army that waged a civil war with the Sandinistas. That conflict killed 30,000 people and led to Ortega's ouster in a 1990 election--after which he paid Morales for the house...
...also seen his share of controversy. Partly because he worked for Casey, Gates was a minor player in the Iran-contra scandal and was criticized for skewing intelligence analysis on the Soviets to suit hard-liners in the Reagan White House. More than 30 Democrats--10 of whom are still in the Senate--opposed his nomination to be CIA director in 1991. Gates went into his confirmation that year carrying a small, white oblong stone in his pocket, a memento of a hike he had taken in the Olympic mountains the summer before. He wanted a reminder of what...