Word: eight
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Harvard women's soccer has now won seven Ivy League championships, and Saturday's win gave Crimson seniors their third Ancient Eight title of their careers...
...pairings for the tournament, the top eight teams are divided into regions and seeded, and the rest of the teams are divided up into those eight regions based on geography. Although 16 teams get first-round byes, the seeded teams are guaranteed the weaker second-round opponent...
...Foxes battled to an early 2-1 lead against the Crimson, but Harvard soon regained its senses. A kill by Schaeffer forced a Marist sideout, and senior defensive specialist Laurel Rayburn gave Harvard the lead with a service ace on its next possession. The Crimson then ran off eight consecutive points, exploding to an 11-2 lead over the Red Foxes. A kill by junior outside hitter Sarah Mattson ended the second game for the Crimson, giving Harvard...
...easy, because you can't get the places during the times you want," cautions Joan Bennett of Indianapolis, Ind., who with her husband Dick owns a 13-week share in Hilton Head. "To be sure of getting a place you want, you should start working on it six to eight months ahead of time," advises retiree Mike Parker, who with his wife Dottie owns three time-shares...
...last six or eight weeks," he said, "I've had a learning experience." Make that a near-death experience--that vertiginous moment when a politician looks into the near future, sees himself writing his memoirs and responds with a frenzied attempt to connect. In the last days of the 1992 campaign, President Bush had that kind of revelation and jetted around the country, waving his arms and shouting himself hoarse. Gore's memento mori has come earlier in the cycle, so unlike Bush, he has time to come down from his adrenaline rush and make his case in a calmer...