Word: crowd
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...verge of crumbling again. The ball was in freshman guard Oliver McNally’s hands with the shot clock winding down as he squared up, attempted to draw contact, and launched a one-handed leaner from the wing. The ball swished through the net, exciting the crowd, extending Harvard’s lead, and giving the team a much needed emotional lift. “It was obviously a very big shot for us,” Amaker said. “We were fortunate that he made it.” Columbia continued to apply defensive pressure...
...With 3:10 left in regulation, the Crimson’s lead was only three points. Harvard sophomore guard Christine Matera demonstrated crowd-silencing heroics by draining two three’s in a row with two minutes remaining. Because Columbia was resilient and relentless in its multiple comebacks, the Crimson bench was still tense with a nine point lead in the closing minutes...
...With sizeable representation for each squad, the crowd buzzed with excitement through each nail-biting finish. Over 30 events crowned an Ivy champion, and Cornell and Princeton emerged as the frontrunners, claiming first and second for men and women. But, on the women’s side the Crimson showed that it is ready to contend with the best, pushing Brown out of the top three...
...With the crowd roaring for defense and the home team up by one, it was up to the Crimson (13-13, 5-7 Ivy) to come up with a stop against the defiant Big Red (19-9, 9-3). Cornell junior Ryan Wittman shot the ball with less than ten seconds to play, but Harvard junior Jeremy Lin made it hard for him to get a good look. The ball bounced off the rim and headed towards the stands when Wittman recovered the rebound, calling for a controversial time out as he fell out of bounds...
...Sister Josephine, a nun in the Daughters of Mary congregation in Trivandrum, Kerala's state capital, was found dead in her room in an apparent suicide. Members of the congregation said the 38-year-old nun had been under treatment for depression. After news of the incident spread, a crowd gathered around the house and shouted slogans alleging that harassment had led Sister Josephine to kill herself. The police had to intervene, and an inquiry into the case was later ordered. Six months earlier, on Aug. 11 of last year, 23-year-old Sister Anoopa Mary had been found hanging...