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Lippert and Markley were hitting their shots and would finish the half with 10 points apiece. It looked like the Crimson (4-3) would sail smoothly to an eventual 74-57 defeat of the Crusaders...
Looking to turn its luck around, the Crimson will have extra motivation to defeat the Bears. Although Harvard and Brown tied both their regular season matches last year, the Bears have had a recent history of comebacks against the Crimson. Last March, Brown went into ECAC playoffs with a 13-game losing streak, but managed to shut out fifth-seeded Harvard...
...These facts compel us to act along with our friends and allies. Our overarching goal remains the same: to disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan, and to prevent its capacity to threaten America and our allies in the future...
...league defeat brought the Crimson’s (1-6-2) winless streak to eight games...
...American people. The most memorable and effective wartime presidential speeches have blended hardheaded statements of resolve with appeals to higher purpose. At Gettysburg, Abraham Lincoln vowed that the Union would complete "the great task remaining before us" yet made it clear that the goal was not just to defeat the Confederacy but to ensure "that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom." During World War II, Franklin D. Roosevelt tacitly agreed to postwar Soviet dominion over Eastern Europe in part to secure Moscow's support for an invasion of Japan. But to the public, FDR couched...