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...weekend took down then-sixth-seeded Princeton in its final regular season game.It was only natural that no one foresaw Brown—the tournament’s 12th seed and a team that had not won a single regular season Ivy game—handing a 1-0 defeat to a team that has been 9-3-1 at home.“We’ve had a good record here at home…and we’ve been playing some good hockey down the stretch,” senior co-captain Brian McCafferty said...
...painful overtime loss to Penn last weekend only added fuel to the fire. Last time the two squads met, four Harvard players posted double figures. Freshman Brogan Berry tallied 17 points on 5-for-6 shooting, while Finelli led the team with seven boards. In the end the Crimson defeated the Bears 71-46.The Bulldogs are coming off a flip flop weekend. The team ended a three-game losing streak last Friday against Penn, but then lost to Princeton the next day. “Despite their record, Yale is always a threat”, Tay said. “Even...
...today, when in schools and workplaces alike, there is a drive to be the best and to stand out. Everyone wants to be a modern day hero; everyone wants to be remembered. This was the dream of Jonas Wergeland, but his pursuit of remembrance and glory only brought him defeat...
...serene confines of Nawaz Sharif's sprawling Lahore estate belie his tumultuous career. He has thrice been Prime Minister of Pakistan, only to be exiled for seven years, returning recently to help his erstwhile rivals defeat a common nemesis, General Pervez Musharraf. In the meantime, the coalition between Sharif's Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz and the Pakistan People's Party (led, until her assassination, by his constant antagonist Benazir Bhutto and now headed by her widower, Asif Ali Zardari, Pakistan's President) has collapsed into bitter recrimination. Last week, the country's Supreme Court barred the ex-Premier...
...national fencing championship before the NCAA,” Crimson coach Peter Brand said. “It dates back more than 100 years. It’s essentially one of those beauty pageant events.” The men sought to come back stronger after their defeat at the hands of Penn in the Ivy League Championships. Although they were yet again unable to top Penn, they finished the day in second place with a record of 59-28. While the results of the saber squad (13-15) were not exactly ideal, the sound performance of the foil squad...