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...unconditional allied victory” yesterday in the campus-wide Internet “Risk” game, signaling the end of two weeks of intense online battles. The victory came after Lowell—the last remaining House outside the winning alliance—was defeated in the sudden-death round initiated yesterday. Leverett, Pforzheimer, and Quincy’s war councils had signed a pact to form the alliance Wednesday night. The official treaty, which was presented to the game’s organizers, Campus Life Fellow John T. Drake ’06 and the College Events...
...Drelinksi stroked Hofstra's third solo home run of the contest off Madick with one out in the ninth inning to walk off with the win and deal Harvard a heartbreaking 3-2 defeat in its first tourney game since...
...Illinois jury in the notorious Brown's restaurant murder case shouldn't have been all that surprising.The state jury rejected the death penalty against one of two men accused in the gruesome 1993 murders of seven restaurant workers outside Chicago, a decision that amounted to a major defeat for the area's top prosecutor. What is perhaps more surprising was how some of the very families whose loved ones were slain considered the sentence a victory...
...Right now, there isn't a nation able to regularly defeat the Thai or Malaysian juggernauts, but they're certainly hoping to. Teams like Burma, where the traditional sport of chinlone requires much of the same skills as sepak takraw, and Indonesia, which has brought in top Thai coach Somkiet Sungsatitanon, will need to be taken seriously in coming years (Burma won three bronzes and a silver at Doha; Indonesia came out with three bronzes). And yet Sungsatitanon is under no illusions about the scale of the challenge before him. "If he were to play Thailand...
...just wasn't supposed to embarrass the Europeans. But as the U.S.'s starting inside right forward, Pariani, who grew up in the soccer-obsessed St. Louis, Mo., neighborhood, "the Hill," was part of one of the most famous upsets in the sport's history. The U.S.'s stinging defeat of England in the 1950 World Cup tournament inspired the 2005 film The Game of Their Lives...