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...coach Tommy Amaker is stuck in the middle. To find success, he must tackle the forces of a disappointing past and all of its depressing streaks. At the same time, the present is a constant concern—how to make the best of a transition year, how to establish a program.And then there is the future, one that Harvard hopes will be bright, but one that is also impossible to predict.“I don’t have a crystal ball, to say this, that, and the other is going to happen;” Amaker says...
...second half, as Harvard scored twice in the third quarter before Penn could run two plays from scrimmage.“Just putting in a score pretty easily at the end of the first half was just huge confidence-wise, and then coming back, we really wanted to establish the line of scrimmage in the second half,” senior quarterback Chris Pizzotti said. “On the first drive [of the second half], that’s what we did.”WHO’S ON FIRST?After scheming against Quakers running back Joe Sandberg?...
...charge with 21 kills on .378 hitting, while junior Kathryn McKinley added 11 kills and 10 digs. Sophomore Katherine Kocurek led the defensive effort with 19 digs, and sophomore setter Lily Durwood distributed 44 assists. The Crimson strung multiple four- and five-point runs throughout the first game to establish a dominant 27-12 lead, and while a subsequent Columbia run made it closer, Harvard was able to close out a 30-22 game one victory on a kill by sophomore Alissa Flesher. Game two featured some of the most efficient hitting Harvard has displayed this year, as the team...
...emergency plays into the militants' hands. Pakistan's army and intelligence forces must now devote time, energy and resources to stamping out opposition protests in the cities rather than fighting militants in their rural redoubts. With the majority of Pakistanis opposed to Musharraf, the government's struggle to establish control in places like the traditionally moderate Swat Valley, where an Islamist militia is waging a bloody campaign to establish Shari'a law, will become even harder. "Pakistan is very religious, but it is not extremist," says Ahsan Iqbal, information secretary for the Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz, the party...
...immediately [have] stuck in my memory,” Pinker said. He also explained the importance of clarity in order to break through the “needless obfuscation” found in science and humanities papers, which Pinker blamed on academics’ laziness, insularity, and compulsion to establish their identity in a privileged group. Conciseness was particularly useful for Pinker during his February appearance on Comedy Central’s “The Colbert Report.” When host Stephen Colbert asked him to summarize how the brain worked in five words, Pinker said...