Word: crowning
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...Harvard men’s tennis team, it is time to regroup, rebound, and retain its coveted Ancient Eight crown...
...World Cup qualifying matches, which started April 1. They got off to a good start, beating Denmark and Bermuda. A top-four finish in Johannesburg will see them go through to the main event, due to be held in various cities across South Asia in 2011. It would also crown an astonishing rise. Seven years ago, in a country defined by conflict, and which does not have a proper grass pitch even today, there was no national team. But three tournament wins in the past year, comprising 15 victories in 17 matches, have brought Afghanistan to the brink...
...Crimson will certainly rely on Shaw’s versatility this season as it looks to take back the Ivy crown. The team is off to a strong start after sweeping Penn and splitting with Columbia this weekend, but it will look to Shaw to contribute to the energy and intensity needed for the rest of the season...
...first great flowering of his career, in the 1950s and '60s, John Cheever was, to all appearances, the crown prince of normality. The wife and three children, the faithful retrievers, the rambling old house in Ossining, N.Y. - in all its outward signs, his life was commensurate with his role as the man who was, with John Updike, the esteemed chronicler of the postwar suburbs. But if you came to his fiction expecting sunlit scenes of American life, you were mistaken. Though his work was shot through with the beauty and abundance of the world, of suburban "nights where kings...
...women’s basketball team was one of three co-champions of the Ivy League, but missed out on postseason tournament play when it fell to Dartmouth in a league playoff. Fast forward a year later, and the Crimson has fallen short of its third straight Ancient Eight crown after a crushing 64-51 loss to the Big Green last Tuesday in Hanover...