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...vaulted Harvard past Yale in the Ivy League standings for the first time since the two teams met two weeks earlier in New Haven, when the Crimson couldn’t convert on any of its three possessions in the final minute in a one-point defeat...
Even though both teams had power-play opportunities in overtime, neither team could push past the other to convert those chances into a goal...
Power plays have been a big factor in the Crimson’s games lately, with Harvard doing all it can to capitalize on those opportunities. The Crimson has been working hard on its power-play strategies in hopes that it will be better able to convert them into goals...
...reveres wine more than the French, but it turns out that even they can have too much of a good thing. The Confederation of French Wine Cooperatives recently asked the European Union for permission to convert 66 million gallons of wine--333 million bottles--into industrial-grade alcohol, including ethanol for French cars. Why? A large grape harvest in 2004 has fed a glut in the French wine market, which is already reeling from tumbling demand. Domestic wine consumption--which makes up 70% of the industry's sales--has dropped sharply in recent years, owing to changing health attitudes...
Coming off the biggest win in recent memory, a 61-57 thriller over league-nemesis Princeton, the Crimson will hit I-95 for games against Brown and Yale this weekend. In 1999, the last year Harvard beat the Tigers, the Crimson was able to convert the momentum from that overtime victory into a road sweep of Brown and Yale to finish at 7-7 in league play...