Word: disappoints
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...definitely one of our goals going into the season,” Holmquest said. “The seniors, we definitely needed to go out beating Yale once.” For the women, Princeton came in ranked No. 16 in the nation and did not disappoint as the heavy favorite. Six of the top seven finishers were Tigers, including winner Liz Costello, who broke the tape at 18:00.7. Yale’s Lindsay Donaldson was the top non-Tiger finisher, crossing the line in 18:08.4. From there, Harvard dominated, with senior Lindsay Scherf in eighth, finishing...
...Lucky and Flo did not disappoint. During their five-month mission in Malaysia, their detective work helped unearth $6 million in pirated DVDs and led to the arrests of 26 people. One bust targeted a bootleg-DVD factory near Kuala Lumpur that Malaysian officials estimate could have produced 60,000 copies...
...little. The ceiling of one such haveli, for example, shows the flute-playing Hindu god Krishna frolicking beside a billowing steam engine. A bit kitsch? Maybe, but even if the images can be trite, the hand-carved teak doors and almost accidental details of the havelis rarely disappoint. Before paints were mass produced, for example, Marwaris fermented their dyes from cow urine and plastered them onto walls while the mud was still wet. This deep mustard brown color, leached under the cauldron of the desert sun, is stunning...
...Crimson wrestling season would be decided by just four performances at the NCAA Championships in Auburn Hills, Mich. Harvard had four wrestlers qualify for the nationals: tri-captain Max Meltzer, tri-captain Robbie Preston, sophomore Louis Caputo, and freshman J. P. O’Connor. The Crimson did not disappoint. The team put up historic numbers at the tournament, earning its highest point total ever at nationals (29), and seeing three of its four wrestlers (Meltzer, Caputo and O’Connor) qualify as All-Americans, including the first ever freshman to do so in program history...
...second straight season, the Harvard men’s basketball team saw its Ivy title hopes smashed by a disappointing losing streak.With an Ivy League record of 3-3 entering the dreaded road trip to Penn and Princeton in early February, the Crimson had hopes of knocking off two of the league’s perennial powerhouses in one fell swoop.Instead, Harvard suffered its most heartbreaking defeat of the season, a double-overtime 74-68 loss to the Tigers that sent the Crimson spiraling downward into a five-game skid.The following night a tired squad lost...