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...Harvard hit a collective .297, good enough for second in the Ivy League. Leading the way for the Crimson was freshman Ellen Macadam, who hit at a .371 clip. The rookie also found success on the base paths. Macadam stole 18 bases, better than everyone in the Ivy League except for classmate Emily Henderson, who ran her way to 28 stolen bases. Henderson was named to the All-Ivy First Team. Harvard was also the League’s top defensive team. Its collective 49 errors were the fewest of any team in the Ancient Eight. And while...
...graduation of Ashwin Kumar and co-captain Dan Nguyen, while making up for the experience and intensity lost with the graduation of Gareth Doran and Kieran Burke. The team will have to find a way to inject some energy into its doubles 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...
...small, populist-flavored "Obama Rama" rally in a Billings city park in a low-income neighborhood Saturday, Obama superdelegate John Melcher, 84, a former U.S. Senator said, "I think this is the best campaign I've ever seen, except for John Kennedy's." He told the gathering he backs Obama because the Iraq war has drained assets better used elsewhere, and said he sees Obama as "a sound, qualified leader," who "has the capacity to draw good people to him, and to retain them...
...Memorial Church even had a room set aside for women to lie down if they had cramps. Girls almost never wore pants except for the occasional pair of blue jeans during reading period...
...fortified front gate of the local community center is a crush of activity. U.S. Soldiers and Iraqi police call the men forward one by one, and pat them down for weapons before letting them inside. It is a scene replicated thousands of times a day all over the country. Except for one difference: here, the security detail includes a team of eight Iraqi women checking all of the females attempting to enter as well...