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...team in three years that I’ve been here. I can’t believe the effort we gave tonight.”The Crimson faced a similarly heartbreaking weekend later in the season, facing Yale and Brown on the road. Harvard first suffered a 5-1 defeat at the hands of the Bulldogs, its worst loss of the season. A day later, the Crimson had to settle for a tie with Brown after the Bears co.mpleted a hard-fought comeback to tie the game with just 13.3 seconds left on the clock.In the season?...
...fresh beginnings, but the Crimson looked nothing like the team that played only a few days before.Beginning with Dartmouth Jan. 2, Harvard steamrolled through the Ancient Eight and lost just a single contest, to Yale, in conference play.The Crimson clinched a share of the Ivy title after defeating Princeton on Feb. 24 and went on to claim the title outright after outlasting Cornell one week later. After beginning the season so shakily, Harvard was now putting on its dancing shoes. The Crimson’s impressive conference play earned a surprising No.15 seed in the NCAA Tournament, matching them...
...consensus high point of the season, Harvard took it to the Quakers in rainy Philadelphia, riding huge saves from Ivy League Rookie of the Year Lauren Mann to notch the victory. Although the rest of the season did not turn out as well, epitomized by a 5-0 defeat against Princeton two weeks later, the effort showed what the young core of freshmen is capable of in the future. “We always want to go undefeated in Ivies,” senior captain Laura Odorczyk said. “To start with a win, our first...
...Tripoli. It may take a while for the smoke to clear, but one thing is for certain: neither Lebanon nor Israel fully understands its enemy and the nature of the relationship between the Palestinians and al-Qaeda, which is strengthening. The hope is that overwhelming military firepower will defeat unbendable faith, and, for our part, let's hope they have better success than we've had in Iraq...
...Iraq has become, we must win it. Al-Qaeda is public enemy number one for Iraq's young democracy, and al-Qaeda is public enemy number one for America, as well. And that is why we must support our troops, we must support the Iraqi government, and we must defeat al-Qaeda in Iraq...