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...subsidize the ruggers—after all, they played a mere club sport.But under the tutelage of graduate student Martyn E. Kingston, the “fun-loving” bunch of ex-varsity athletes, many hailing from high school football and soccer careers, not only dominated their Northeastern, Eastern, and Ivy competition, but also clobbered their national competition in the National Rugby Championship game against the University of Colorado in the spring of 1984—an accomplishment that has never been repeated.“The whole run to the national championships not only caught the university...
...While Israel is right to seek to protect its people from indiscriminate rocket fire, its disproportionate response likely caused more harm than good.Meanwhile, Moscow rang in the New Year by shutting off gas supplies to Ukraine once again in a pricing dispute that has been heavily tinged by geopolitics. Eastern Europe, which has suffered heavily from the recent economic downturn, was further destabilized by this move. But the chilling news from Ukraine was offset by the announcement of a power-sharing agreement between the corrupt and ailing Mugabe regime in Zimbabwe and the opposition Movement for Democratic Change...
...future husband, Neil K. Aggarwal, had the “dubious distinction” of being the only graduate student in the show, she said. Kumar, at the time a sophomore, made the first move by e-mailing Aggarwal, a graduate student in Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, after the show. The two had a four-hour first date at Café Pamplona and spent nearly all their time together while Aggarwal finished his master’s degree. When he graduated that spring, they continued to see each other long-distance. Kumar made frequent trips to New Haven, where...
...took home the honor of New England Coach of the Year.Earning a bid to the NCAAs was particularly satisfying for Radcliffe, as the Grand Final of the Sprints saw the Varsity Eight edge Princeton and finish within one second of the No. 2 Yale Bulldogs.“At Eastern Sprints, we got second, and I think that we should have been rowing like that all season and our previous results don’t really reflect that,” Coffey said. “It’s a little frustrating not to peak earlier, but now that...
...much more competitively in comparison to its fellow New England colleges this year. While the season’s first five carnivals were marked with 10th-place efforts, the Crimson’s alpine and nordic squads combined to place ninth at their final competition of the winter, the Eastern Intercollegiate Ski Association Championship in Sugarloaf, Maine. The men’s alpine and women’s nordic teams led the way for Harvard this year, often earning the most points for the team at its weekly carnivals throughout New England. The men’s alpine squad?...