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...biggest comebacks in Harvard football history?You take it to overtime. Twice.On Sept. 24, 2005, one year after the Crimson roared back from a 21-point deficit to defeat Brown in the final seconds, Harvard battled the Bears to a 38-35 double-overtime win at Harvard Stadium. It was the first double-overtime game in Harvard football history. To get to even one overtime, though, Harvard had to play a familiar game of catch-up.The Bears, picked to finish third in the Ivy preseason poll—Harvard was projected at No. 2—blazed...
...halftime, courtesy of senior midfielder and captain Jen McDavitt. But Princeton scored twice in the second frame to steal the game from the Crimson. Harvard then went on to close out its season with three more one-point contests, including a 2-1 loss to Boston University and a defeat by the same score to Ivy League opponent Dartmouth. The Crimson was able to shake a ten-game losing streak with its season-ending victory versus Columbia. Connolly, selected as Harvard’s Most Improved Player, earned her first collegiate win. The Lions’ lone shot on target...
...nearly .500 in league play (3-4), the Crimson arose victorious in its opener against rival Yale, Harvard’s first defeat of the Bulldogs in 12 years. Junior goalie Kathryn Tylander stopped 60 percent of Yale’s scoring attempts, allowing only three second-half goals in the 11-8 triumph...
Gore says he has found "a different kind of campaign," one that plays more to his strengths than electoral politics did. The 2000 defeat taught him lessons about his talents and his limits. When he was considering four years ago whether to make a 2004 presidential bid, Gore told TIME, "I'm better at looking over the next ridge to try to anticipate what we're going to see there. What I don't think I'm good at is the back-slapping and political compromise that are part of being a candidate...
...reason why older doctors (when they're not thinking about HMO's) are generally a stable and contented bunch. Most of the time, most of our bodies work pretty well. Without a superconducting, supercooled magnet, without medical education, without any thought on our part, we battle and defeat disease and injury every second. Do you know how many things out there can kill you? Yet here you are reading. Something very, very powerful must be keeping you here. The machines we have to analyze the body are complex. But not nearly as complex, or as wondrously made and maintained...