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That might not have been the case had Lingman not withdrawn from the tournament prior to her quarterfinal date with Penn’s Raluca Ciochina due to illness. After a first-round bye, Lingman coasted through her next two matches, losing just five games...
...score a little higher. This is not false modesty. Harvard’s academics, athletics and social life have their strengths and their weaknesses, just like any other college does. Budding actors go to Yale, budding mathematicians to Harvard. You probably won’t see a future first-round NBA draft pick playing for the Crimson, but you might see a future women’s hockey gold medalist. Harvard may not be as exceptional a place as it’s made out to be. Nevertheless, debunking Harvard to your friends is different from debunking Harvard...
...where she won double gold in the women's 200-m and 400-m individual medley. Last week, she became the first woman ever to do the double again. "When you do it once, that is very important," she says. "When you win twice and make history, that stays in the record books forever." TSHERING CHHODEN and TASHI PELJOR Bhutan had never won an Olympic match until current OS athletes Chhoden and Peljor scored archery's biggest first-round upsets last week. Chhoden beat 11th-seeded Chinese Lin Sang in the women's draw, and Peljor outshot No. 13 seed...
...team that's willing to win." (As opposed to all those fools who think the point is to lose.) So, in a power-sapping trade, the Lakers let O'Neal go in return for three Heat starters--Lamar Odom, Brian Grant and Caron Butler--plus a future first-round draft pick. The Lakers did manage to hang on to guard and persistent O'Neal rival Kobe Bryant, whose sexual-assault trial begins in August. What's sports lingo for Pyrrhic victory...
...which Harvard plummeted out of the national rankings after polls placed them as high as No. 6—didn’t make Mazzoleni a great coach any more. Dominating No. 1 Maine for 40 minutes might have, but for a four-goal third-period collapse and another first-round exit...