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...that goal,” Hahn said. “Not a bad turn, and a pretty good finish. That was kind of tough for us to take.” Harvard has come from behind many times this season, and going down early has hardly ever meant defeat. But on Saturday, with a muddy field that lent itself to sloppy play, the magic finally ran out. The Crimson pressured through the rest of the first half and put up a smattering of shots through the middle of the second half. One of Harvard’s best chances came...
...things happen, we want to be in a position to be a part of [the title].” Looking to the standings, a win against Columbia next Friday would guarantee the Crimson a second-place finish in the Ivy League. On the same day, should third-place Penn defeat first-place Princeton, Harvard would share the championship title with the Tigers. “We know we have to win all the [league contests] we have left,” Berglund said. “You never know what’s going to happen in an Ivy game...
...game and finished with 29 in the match.“After a tough loss [against Yale], we came out solid,” head coach Jennifer Weiss said. “We executed the game plan well.”Traveling to Providence, the Crimson was hoping to defeat the Bears for the second time this season. Earlier this month, Harvard downed Brown, 3-1, at home. And after the dominant first game, it looked as if the match might play out in a similar fashion.However, the Bears went on a run in the second game, taking the momentum...
...whiz kids suffer setbacks. In 2003, despite never having run for office, Jindal lost the gubernatorial race by only four points to Democrat Kathleen Blanco. He had led the race for months, and while Jindal will never admit it, his ethnicity likely played at least some part in his defeat. Despite a college-era conversion from Hinduism to Catholicism and his close alignment with the passionately pro-life wing of the GOP, Jindal could not convince rural voters in the state's north, who had voted for white supremacist David Duke less than two decades earlier, to give him their...
...Prime Minister, who has staked his reputation on the deal that promised to bring energy-starved India back into the legitimate international trade in civilian nuclear fuel and technology despite the country's nuclear-weapons program and its failure to adopt the Non-Proliferation Treaty, appears to have accepted defeat: Last week, a subdued Singh shrugged that that while disappointing, "it would not be the end of life" if the deal failed to win Indian approval. Perhaps, but it could spell the end of his political viability...