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...Harvard women’s volleyball team showed promise in its first tournament of the season last weekend. Hosting the Harvard Invitational at the Malkin Athletic Center, the Crimson won its first two matches—defeating Colgate, 3-2, and Stony Brook, 3-1—and dropped its final game to Toledo, 3-1. “We got better all weekend,” Harvard coach Jen Weiss said. “We improved in so many ways in our offensive and defensive system.” TOLEDO 3, HARVARD 1 In its final match...
...Qaeda, meanwhile, would return on a red carpet. "All these fancy new villas in Kabul where the diplomats and the rich businessmen live? They'll go to al-Qaeda families," says Mir, adding that a "defeat" of the U.S.-led forces here would be a boon to Muslim extremists around the world, much as the Soviet army's retreat from Afghanistan was during the late 1980s. (See pictures of Osama bin Laden...
...First Lady has it been lost on me that she is also a member. I don't see just an easy, bouncy do. I see the fruits of a time-consuming effort to convey a carefully calculated image. In the next-day ponytail, I see a familiar defeat...
...squeaked by Holy Cross before stumbling to three straight losses. Perhaps after dominating the Crusaders in 2009, the Crimson can look forward to a better result. Harvard (1-0) opened its season on Saturday with a 4-1 victory in Worcester, Mass., handing Holy Cross (0-2) a resounding defeat on Hart Turf Field. Junior Chloe Keating led the way for the Crimson with two goals and an assist, while sophomore Carly Dickson set the table on two occasions to bolster Harvard’s attack. The two returning stars paired up for a goal early on, as Keating deflected...
Start with the basics: The U.S.-Japan alliance did not come into being because the two countries decided they loved each other. It did so because one defeated the other in war; occupied it; then wrote and imposed a new constitutional settlement upon it. Japan may have "embraced defeat," to adapt the title of John Dower's book on the postwar period, but let nobody suppose that this had nothing to do with a naked assessment by Japanese leaders of their interests, rather than in a sudden passion for all things American...