Word: duals
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...lineup, which often struggled at all postions except No. 1, where the No. 34 duo of Kumar and junior Sasha Ermakov won seven straight matches to guide the Crimson to the all-important doubles point throughout the Ivy League season. With their 24-8 overall record (15-3 in dual matches), Kumar and Ermakov earned a spot in the doubles bracket of the NCAA tournament. After downing a Michigan State pair, the duo bowed out in the second round to a team from North Carolina. No. 112 Clayton also made the NCAA tournament in singles, but fell in first round...
...trenches about 19 in. (.5 m) into the surface, a depth where scientists believe ice meets soil, and haul a sample onto the spacecraft. There, an instrument will heat the soil in tiny ovens, checking the resulting vapors for water and carbon compounds. An on-board chemistry lab with dual microscopes will add water to the sample and analyze the spectral and electrochemical results to check acidity, salt levels, and ion concentrations...
Things began to change when political satirists took on a dual role as talk-show hosts. Johnny Carson, whose topical wisecracks helped define the national mood in the 1970s and '80s, played it strictly down the middle and made sure nothing cut too deep; after all, you never know which butt of your jokes might show up one night on the guest couch. In truth, relatively few of the era's political leaders appeared on Carson's show: not Jimmy Carter, or Gerald Ford, or even Ronald Reagan after he became a presidential candidate. One exception was a young Arkansas...
Both lightweight varsity endured a long dual season, as Harvard looked to integrate 11 sophomores into the top two varsity eights. The Crimson won just one dual race in both varsity eights this spring (over Penn), its two boats trying to overcome the graduation of a deep and talented 2007 class...
...call,” Mulcahy said. “We saw that you really just have to be at your best in the heat and then again in the final. Yesterday we weren’t quite there--but I think we’ve made progress since the dual season ended and I think that experience will help...