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Nevertheless, ranking can mean very little in soccer. Witness the Harvard women's booters, who, despite entering their NCAA Tournament ranked 10th and dominating much of the play during its first-round matchup with UMass, still fell 2-1 in overtime...
...Harvard women's soccer team took on UMass yesterday afternoon on Ohiri Field in a first-round NCAA tournament game. The day started out perfectly, but it was too good to be true as the Crimson fell in overtime...
...leave Atlanta one gold medal short of his goal. "I'm disappointed I can't run in the 4x400, but I guess you can't get everything," he said. "I'm confident the four guys who go out will bring home the gold." The 1,600 team won its first-round heat Friday with Anthuan Maybank, Derek Mills, LaMont Smith and Jason Rouser. Johnson had planned to sit out that race. World record holder Butch Reynolds is scheduled to run in later rounds. The women's 400 relay team advanced to the finals and the 1,600 competes...
...Yeltsin's prediction of a first-round victory so huge that a runoff wouldn't be necessary. "Believe what you want," says Dresner, "but there is never any justification for hype like that unless you're out to depress the turnout, which is the exact opposite of what we were trying...
...Video International, the advertising firm hired before the Americans arrived, Yeltsin had a first-rate team. The series of 15 one-minute spots produced for airing before the first-round balloting on June 16 was "at least as good as most anything you could get in the West," says Dresner. "Showing average Russians grudgingly coming to the realization that they had to support Yeltsin was the only way to move people who essentially wished the President was out of their lives...