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After a Dartmouth goal pulled the Big Green within one late in the contest, Terry White provided the dagger, giving Harvard the 13-11 win. Once again, the Crimson had pulled off an improbable comeback...

Author: By Scott A. Sherman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard Overcomes Six-Goal Deficit, Beats Big Green | 3/29/2010 | See Source »

Immediately after the timeout, Wittman nailed a three-pointer off a screen on the right wing. After Lin missed a long-range try of his own, Dale followed off the dribble with another dagger...

Author: By Dennis J. Zheng, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Comeback Falls Short as Cornell Drops Crimson | 2/20/2010 | See Source »

...tough missed layup by Yale captain Alex Zampier led to a Crimson fast break, which ended on a crucial left-corner triple by rookie wing Christian Webster. The dagger extended the Crimson’s advantage to 75-71. Zampier cut the deficit in half with a fast-break layup of his own—two of his game-high 32 points—but two possessions later, Harvard went back to the ever-dangerous Casey, who collected team-highs of 20 points and seven rebounds on the night...

Author: By Dennis J. Zheng, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Crimson Survives OT Thriller, Stays in Title Hunt | 2/16/2010 | See Source »

...thought we started very well—we were pretty sharp,” Amaker said. “I just thought that the end of the first half, that was the dagger...

Author: By Martin Kessler, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Hoyas Too Much For Harvard To Handle | 12/24/2009 | See Source »

...thought lost. In 1989, they uncovered the ruins of the legendary Egyptian city of Berenike Panchrysos, a desert town once allegedly paved with gold. The first breakthrough in the hunt for Cambyses' army came in 1996, when the Castiglioni brothers ran across a cache of Persian arrow tips and dagger blades beneath a rock outcrop not far from the oasis of Siwa - near the modern-day Egyptian border with Libya and the site of the sacred Amon temple, whose oracle was worshipped by Greeks and Egyptians alike. Cambyses' army had set out from the city of Thebes to reach Siwa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Vanished Army: Solving an Ancient Egyptian Mystery | 11/17/2009 | See Source »

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