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...though, Harvard's rally came up short and the Crimson suffered its third defeat of the season. UNH did, however, have a huge home field advantage. The Wildcats play on natural grass, which is a detriment in field hockey since the ball takes unusual bounces and slows down play overall...
...flight one, the most-advanced leveling of competition, Harvard sophomore Sanja Bajin defeated Boston College's Cynthia Tow in the most dramatic match of the tournament, 7-5, 4-6, 6-4. Bajin is the first Harvard player to defeat Tow, a senior, in three years...
...past, Milosevic's opponents have usually defeated only themselves. An assortment of dissident parties won municipal elections in the winter of 1996-97 and mounted three months of daily street demonstrations to try to make their defiant ruler concede defeat. But the drive to topple the tyrant lost all steam when egocentric opposition leaders turned on one another, then squandered public trust by cutting personal deals with the regime. Kostunica will need to display uncommon skill and perseverance just to keep his argumentative alliance intact...
Although they own a respectable 3-2-1 record, the Crimson could be two wins richer. Both a disappointing 2-2 draw with Boston University at the Dartmouth Invitational on September 17, and a well-fought 2-1 defeat at the hands of the Brown Bears last Sunday could have been victories had the ball bounced differently once or twice...
...Still, the tide has turned dramatically against Milosevic. If even the official election results reflect a defeat by the opposition, it may be only a matter of time before the military, business and political elites that have kept the Serb strongman in power begin trying to secure their own positions in a post-Milosevic Yugoslavia. Already the rabid nationalists of Vojislav Seselj's Radical Party - once the most bellicose backers of Milosevic's military misadventures of the past decade - have jumped ship, proclaiming a Kostunica victory and urging that it be respected. Kostunica is no NATO shill - he even suggested...