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...door he was running so fast,” Sullivan said. “Usually, when people run away from the scene of the crime like that, something’s up.” Harvard must quickly overcome the bitterness of Saturday’s wrenching defeat if it wants to salvage its season. Next weekend, perennial Ivy League powerhouses Princeton and Penn enter Lavietes Pavilion. The Crimson will likely have to sweep both games from their rivals to stay in contention with Penn, which has yet to lose in league play...
...Hitler, it might still be, but his aggression drove scientists out of Europe, and the desperate need to defeat him galvanized the U.S. and Britain into pouring money into defense research, creating powerful new technologies--radar, sonar, the atom bomb. U.S. leaders learned that pure research like atomic and electromagnetic physics, combined with massive government funding, could lead to dramatic breakthroughs in military technology. Because the Soviet Union almost immediately became just as ominous a threat as Nazi Germany had been, Congress created the National Science Foundation in 1950 to fund basic and applied science, mostly at universities, "to promote...
...part of the game of hockey.”AROUND THE ECACSt. Lawrence has long been the top ECAC team according to the national rankings, but this weekend it finally climbed to the top of the league standings.The Saints finished the weekend with 22 points after a 3-1 defeat of No. 8 Princeton and a 7-1 romp over Quinnipiac.No. 9 Clarkson had a chance to keep pace, but an overtime goal by Princeton’s Annie Greenwood broke a scoreless tie and gave the Tigers the victory on the road. Both the Golden Knights and Princeton went...
...disciples of David Ben-Gurion, the founding father of the Jewish State, lost to the descendants of Vladimir Jabotinsky, the Zionist revisionist who articulated the Iron Wall theory and sought to include Transjordan in the borders of the future Israeli state. Believing that only force and unilateral action could defeat Arab nationalists, Jabotinsky wrote that “No agreement was possible with the Palestinian Arabs; they would accept Zionism only when they find themselves up against an Iron Wall, when they realize they had no alternative but to accept Jewish Settlement.”In an article published last...
After perhaps the most crushing defeat of the season just a week earlier, the Harvard women’s basketball team was in need of a remedy to get back to its winning ways. On Friday night at Lavietes Pavilion, that remedy came in the form of the Columbia Lions. Led by the freshman trio of Katie Rollins, Emma Moretzsohn and Emily Tay, Harvard coasted to an 86-63 thrashing of Columbia in a home league tilt. It was the first action for the Crimson since a heartbreaking last-second defeat against Brown earlier in the week, but Harvard seemed...