Word: dominions
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...tennis team had trouble finding its rhythm. “Overall, I don’t think they are playing their best tennis,” Harvard coach Traci Green said. “But I see a lot of improvement.” The tournament, hosted by Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Va., is a qualifier for the ITA National Intercollegiate Championships at Ohio State. The draw, which includes four Harvard women, features all the top players in the East Region. The singles finalists and the doubles champions in the tournament will earn spots in the national tournament held...
...very shifty and variable. If you weren’t paying attention it was easy to lose a lot of boats very fast.”St. Mary’s won the regatta with 132 points, followed by Charleston (145), Georgetown (151), Navy (178), Old Dominion (214), and Boston College (214).“We look to improve on our mistakes next weekend,” Watson said.CAPTAIN HURST BOWLThe co-eds competed in the Captain Hurst Bowl on Saturday and Sunday, a 22-team event hosted by Dartmouth.The Crimson finished eighth in the 15-race regatta thanks...
...Pines Intercollegiate tested the field’s endurance with three rounds, and playing thirty-six holes on Monday rewarded those with a consistent swing and focus.Harvard performed well on this long day with two rounds of 289. After the first round, Harvard trailed leader Old Dominion by ten shots before East Carolina state took over the top spot on the leader board for good by firing a second-round 276.Sophomore Greg Shuman carded the lowest round for the team with a three-day score of 217 to finish in four-way tie for 18th place.Shuman fired a one-under...
...spoiler to say that this wee chap (played by Peter Dinklage) eventually gets his comeuppance. It is, after all, the business of farce to restore order to radically disordered situations. The fun arises as we helplessly witness the mad logic by which, step by tiny step, chaos asserts its dominion over normalcy. Take that naked fellow on the roof. Until today, he was a perfectly normal lawyer, a trifle nervous about meeting his fianc?e's family, but steadying himself by taking what he thought was a Valium. Not his fault that he grabbed the wrong pill bottle and ingested...
...places better convey the bittersweet legacy of Indian independence than the eastern city of Calcutta. It was here that Britain began building its dominion in India. The sprawling mansion that today houses the governor of West Bengal - a chiefly symbolic role akin to India's presidency - was, until 1911, the seat of British power throughout all of Asia. "When the house was built, the British Empire in India was like a little patchwork of crimson spots on the map of the Indian continent," then Viceroy Lord Curzon wrote of the significance of his former abode. "When it was abandoned...