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...beat archrival Princeton, 50-43, on Saturday night at Lavietes Pavilion. After scoring only 12 points in the opening period, Harvard dashed off a 15-0 run early in the second half to take control of the game and gain vengeance for the team’s double-overtime defeat at Princeton on Feb. 9. The victory snapped a four-game losing streak against the Tigers and pushed Princeton even further into the Ivy basement in the process. It was only Harvard’s second defeat of the Tigers in the last 16 meetings between the two teams...
...stopped the team’s title dreams once again. In the end, the Crimson, who entered the tournament as the third season, would end its championship run the same as it began, placing third overall after beating Yale in the consolation match. Princeton would go on to be defeated on Sunday by Trinity, which claimed its ninth straight national title. With the respectable finish, Harvard enjoyed its final moment as a team. “Its a bittersweet moment for the seniors,” sophomore Verdi DiSesa said. “With six of the nine top nine...
...popular ayatullah, Mohammed Bakr al-Sadr, uncle of Muqtada. Shi'ites made up a majority of those killed in Iraq's war with Iran, which lasted from 1980 to 1988, but after it ended they were once again shut out of most senior government and military positions. With the defeat of Saddam's army in the 1991 Gulf War, Shi'ites saw a chance to rise against the dictator. But they received no protection from the allied forces, and Saddam was able to smash the revolt. By some estimates, more than 300,000 Shi'ites were killed; many were buried...
...vote to authorize the invasion of Iraq was a mistake, she could be accused of being a flip-flopper. "She is in a box now ... but she doesn't want to be in a different, even worse box--the vacillating, flip- flopping Democratic candidate [who] went down to defeat in 2000 and '04," said one of the Senator's apparently limitless supply of advisers. "She wants to maintain a firmness ... That's what people will want...
...This marks the second consecutive year that Harvard has come just short of winning its 12th national title. Last season, the Crimson was knocked off in the semifinals by Yale before coming back to defeat Princeton in the third-place game. The team has not won the title since...