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Harvard (14-4-0), which has already traveled to sunny Los Angeles for the match, where the weather today was 80 degrees, will take Marshall Field in Westwood, Calif. The Crimson earned the trip after a come-from-behind first-round win against Binghamton. Sophomore Mike Fucito and Ivy League Freshman of the Year André Akpan scored the tying and winning goals in the victory...
...obsession of the Reagan Administration - was elected president again on Sunday despite frantic U.S. lobbying for his defeat. By most accounts, the yanqui politicking - which included a threat to cut off U.S. aid to impoverished Nicaragua if Ortega won - backfired miserably, actually helping boost the Sandinista leader to his first-round victory. That such U.S. pressure tends to work in favor of its opponents is a lesson Washington seems woefully unable to learn in a post-Cold War Latin America whose electorates have unexpectedly turned leftward in recent years...
Going into the last weekend’s season finale, Harvard was ranked 17th by Adidas/NSCAA National Poll and had an outside chance of gaining a first-round bye. Although the Crimson wasn’t awarded a bye, the team was not disappointed...
...latter eventually won the job. Despite little playing experience before the 2005-2006 season, Daigneau posted solid numbers between the posts—including a 2.48 goals-against average and 19-10-2 record—and led his team to the NCAA tournament, where Harvard suffered a first-round loss to Maine. Daigneau also won the John Tudor Memorial Cup, given to the team’s most valuable player, at the annual year-end banquet. This season, with Daigneau lost to graduation, the Crimson finds itself in a nearly identical situation. Harvard has no starter with significant experience...
...look at the course of the last five or six months there has only been one poll out of range, and that was on the eve of the election itself," said Dr. Timothy Power, a lecturer at Oxford University's Centre for Brazilian Studies. "Lula had to face the first-round election on his one bad weekend of the year. I think the fact that we have to face a runoff at all is a fluke...