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...Harvard crushed Brown in a four-game sweep after the series with Yale, but then lost three of four to Rolfe Division champion Dartmouth. The Crimson went 7-5—highlighted by the sweep of the Bears at home—to close the year after its dismal start and brought its league record back to respectability.Senior Matt Kramer, who anchored the defense at catcher and first base, led the team in on base and slugging percentage but was not an All-Ivy selection.“Matt Kramer hit at least .400 in league and absolutely deserved...
...discovering his love for movies and, later, his love for other men. But this is mainly a biography of a place and time: of its stately old civic monuments and, later, its soulless estates (an expression, Davies says in the narration, of "the British genius for creating the dismal"); of its residents' football mania and fondness for radio's corniest comics; of the contrast between postwar rationing and the regal excesses of Queen Elizabeth's coronation ("the Betty Windsor Show...
...marked the second time in three weeks that the Crimson heavyweight varsity came back from a dismal start to seal a victory in the last 1,000 meters of the race—a boost of confidence for a squad preparing for the grueling races that await them at Eastern Sprints and IRAs...
...effort was there, but every member of the team will say the seniors deserved better.Battling dismal weather, a soggy field, and an energetic Dartmouth squad, the Harvard men’s lacrosse team dropped a disappointing season finale at Harvard Stadium on Senior Day last Saturday.In a game that featured momentum swings for both sides, the Big Green (7-7, 3-3 Ivy League) coupled a blistering start with a punishing second half to earn a 12-6 victory and dash any hope of a .500 season for the Crimson (6-8, 1-5).“It?...
...much as any sharp rightward turn in the capital, Alemanno's win is a sure sign that the center-left is in a dismal state. Veltroni, who was pummeled by Berlusconi two weeks ago, said the loss of Rome to the center-right was cause for "reflection." One question sure to be reflected on deeply in coming days: whether Veltroni himself can survive as the head of the opposition having presided over two such cutting defeats in the course of a mere two weeks...