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...they had met that season. But none of those games were as important as this one, taking place at the semifinals of the College Water Polo Association Northern Division Championships in Harvard’s own pool. The Crimson had to win to guarantee itself a spot at the Eastern Championships the next week, and if tensions were not high enough, Harvard had to live down losing its previous three meetings with the Bears, as well as having suffered a blowout by Hartwick the previous night. No matter, as the players overturned a 5-4 deficit with two goals early...
...Eastern Sprints, both Crimson crews competed intensely, but the results were bittersweet. The heavyweight varsity eight was no match for a resurgent Brown boat, and Harvard came in second in overall team points...
...putting forth a 10-14 record after breaking even at 12-12 in 2008. Despite the slight difference in records, co-captain Devon MacLaughlin is proud of the season her team produced. “We ended the season much better than we have in the past by making [Eastern Championships] and winning a game,” MacLaughlin said. “We also played a much harder schedule this year.” The team fell just short in several of its losses, with only six defeats—all to opponents receiving votes in the national poll?...
...high-speed Paris-Brussels-Amsterdam-Cologne service called Thalys along with Belgian rail operator Société Nationale des Chemins de Fer Belge (SNCB) and Germany's Deutsche Bahn (DB). DB also uses the French company's track to operate its high-speed Intercity-Express (ICE) trains between eastern France and Paris. But, despite their cooperation on some routes, DB and SNCF are locking horns over Eurostar. The French have a majority stake in Eurostar, which also includes the Belgians and the U.K.'s London and Continental Railways (LCR). DB has made no secret that it is looking...
...More than 20,000 teachers and day-care workers put down their crayons across Germany on Tuesday, including the states of North Rhine Westphalia and Bavaria, and eastern states such as Saxony and Thuringia. The teachers are demanding less stressful working conditions in the country's state-run kindergartens (which cater to children from the age of 2 or, in some states, age 1) and are calling for a new "health-protection contract." The industrial action is being organized by public-sector union Verdi and the GEW education union, which says that teachers are overburdened with red tape and suffer...