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...school where brains trump brawn, where final exams take precedence over national championships, and where a play by William Shakespeare is often a bigger draw than a play by Crimson back Steven Williams, there is one annual anomaly that brings the Harvard student body together in the name of sports: The Game.The final whistle’s sound each November cements the memories. Thanks to a league ban on postseason playoffs, there is no chance to change history—no conference title contest, bowl game, or national championship. The memories linger with coaches, players, and fans?...
...Crimson recorded some of its best results of the season. Tiong advanced to the semifinals of the main bracket, the best performance for a freshman in the tournament, defeating former Crimson standout and 2006 national champion Lily Lorentzen of Stanford along the way. Snyder, snubbed by the main draw, charged through the Holleran “B” draw as the top seed to take the title. Freshman Bethan Williams recorded one of the biggest upsets in tournament history by defeating the tournament’s No. 3 seed, Princeton’s Amanda Siebert, in the opening round...
...mention of France’s more recent oversteps in colonial Algeria? Perhaps education design should be left to the educators, and not the politicians. It is, of course, difficult to ask or impel any major power to come to grips with its past errors, but the nearer states draw to honest self-assessment the more remote the prospect of future atrocities becomes...
...Speaking before a crowd of about 100, the former president went on to draw a parallel between the indispensable contribution of the Israeli youths to their country and the responsibility of the graduating class to have a similar impact...
...said, "I think this is the best campaign I've ever seen, except for John Kennedy's." He told the gathering he backs Obama because the Iraq war has drained assets better used elsewhere, and said he sees Obama as "a sound, qualified leader," who "has the capacity to draw good people to him, and to retain them...