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...Howe Cup final that was virtually a foregone conclusion ever since the Crimson’s tantalizingly close 5-4 loss to the Bulldogs last week in Cambridge. Yale came away with its No. 1 national ranking intact and its second-straight league crown secured. The Crimson, meanwhile, was left with its only loss of the season and a desire for a Howe Cup rematch...
...league crown seemed all but a forgone conclusion throughout the early part of the season for the Crimson. Harvard stormed through the first two months of the season without losing a single game and looked as though it would breeze through the Ivy schedule...
...next meet for the entire team is the climax of the season—the Heptagonal championships in which Harvard will race for the Ivy League crown...
...faith in the monarchy has also plummeted since the palace slaughter of 2001, in which Crown Prince Dipendra killed King Birendra (Gyanendra's brother) and eight other royals before turning his revolver fatally on himself. King Gyanendra is nowhere near as popular as his predecessor?and by seizing power he could be playing into the hands of the Maoists, who want to topple the monarchy and form a communist republic. The rebels wasted no time in reacting. Maoist leader Prachanda denounced the "genocidal, corrupted national betrayer Gyanendra...
With a 6-3 win Saturday afternoon against No. 2 Dartmouth—which stands at No. 1 in the PairWise Rankings and has only lost to No. 1 Minnesota—Harvard has once again jumped back into contention not only for the ECAC crown, but also the NCAA championship...