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...Crimson will look to get back on track after an embarrassing 10-0 defeat at Boston College on Tuesday when it travels to Yale for two weekend doubleheaders against the Elis...
...first night game of the season, the No. 17 Harvard men’s lacrosse team used an explosive second half to defeat Brown 10-6 at Stevenson Field last night in Providence, R.I. Sophomore midfielder Zach Widbin notched his second career hat trick and Brooks Scholl added two goals of his own to help the Crimson overcome an early deficit. Harvard (5-3, 2-1 Ivy) got off to a shaky start on the defensive end, allowing the Bears (2-7, 0-2 Ivy) five first-half goals on just 10 shot attempts. “We were...
...features the crime-fighting duo of Victorian “private enquiry agent” Cyrus Barker and his young assistant, Thomas Llewelyn. Barker is a sort of Sherlock Holmes on steroids: in addition to possessing a strange omniscience, he is in peak physical condition and can defeat even the most formidable of adversaries in hand-to-hand combat (or, as is inexplicably the case here, stick fighting). He is also a botanist with an Edenic garden, a man with connections of every sort in several nations, and the inventor of a bulletproof lead coat?...
...billionaire like Silvio Berlusconi is used to wanting, and getting, it all. Even when he has to admit defeat, Berlusconi usually comes away better off than most. So it shouldn't be that surprising that while his days as Italian Prime Minister are now almost certainly numbered, the charismatic media mogul may well emerge from the election, ostensibly won by center left leader Romano Prodi, as what one center-left source called "winning loser." Having made up much ground in the polls in the final weeks, Berlusconi has reaffirmed his own party, Forza Italia, as the single largest political force...
...After his apparent defeat in Parliamentary elections by just 25,000 or so votes among 38 million ballots cast, some observers were expecting fireworks and demands for a nationwide recount. But Berlusconi, in his first public comments Monday night, calmly stated that he will concede defeat only once all the contested ballots are verified, adding that Italy might want to consider Germany's example of a national unity government...