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...February last season, Harvard coach Kathy Delaney-Smith felt a little out of place.The Crimson fell to 3-3 in Ivy League play after a 70-55 defeat at Princeton, a loss that all but took Harvard out of the Ivy title hunt before the second round of league competition even began.“I’m not quite used to this,” said Delaney-Smith in February. “I really haven’t had very many years where we weren’t in the title hunt. It’s very...
...This may be the best punting game we’ve had in terms of placement of the ball,” he added.The field position and poor execution limited the Crimson to just 97 second half yards after racking up 248 in the first.Harvard now needs to defeat Yale and hope for a Dartmouth victory over Princeton in order to gain any share of the Ivy title.—Staff writer Brad Hinshelwood can be reached at bhinshel@fas.harvard.edu...
...like Michael Jordan repeatedly saved his best for the Utah Jazz, Cornell blueliner Doug Krantz is developing a knack for crushing the spirits of the Harvard men’s hockey team. In many ways, the Crimson’s late collapse in Friday’s 3-2 defeat could be compared to Harvard’s 4-3 loss to the Big Red on November 11, 2005—almost exactly a year ago. In both games, the Crimson held a late lead. On Friday, senior Kevin Du potted a power-play goal, putting Harvard ahead...
...very easy for her to stay out of the fight, at least publicly. The candidate she just endorsed, Pennsylvania Congressman John Murtha, is a decided underdog in the race against Maryland's Steny Hoyer, who has served as the House Minority Whip since 2003, so Pelosi might suffer a defeat only a week after ascending to her current lofty position...
...hard to exaggerate the importance to the Chinese authorities of an event they see as China's coming out party as a major world power. Yet, even with so much at stake and the executive power bestowed by authoritarian rule, Beijing'S doggedly dirty atmosphere may yet defeat the government's seemingly half hearted attempts to clean up. The capital remains a standout among Chinese cities in that it has no restrictions on the number of new cars hitting its streets. Shanghai for example limits new cars sales by charging for new license plates. In Beijing, there are no limits...