Word: flukes
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...took the racquetwomen ten years to do it, but on Sunday they brought home their first National title. To call the victory a fluke, or to compare it with Yale's solitary win in 1977, is to belittle an accomplishment which is likely to be repeated in the near future. Harvard will be in the thick of the fight next year, and the year after, and the year after. At least...
...casual glance at the scorecard of this past intersession would indicate that all the previous successes of this year's Harvard wrestling team had been a fluke, a mere accident of scheduling. How could a previously undefeated team lose by a score of 36-6? And in their next match, how could they lose to a Wilkes College? Who the hell has ever heard of Wilkes College...
...hockey revival. The Crimson reeled off a season-high four-game ECAC unbeaten streak before Lau was lost for the season with a knee injury and a 7-3 loss at Cornell eliminated the squad from playoff consideration Harvard, the feeling was, had proved the Beanpot win was no fluke with its late-season play and, led by Lau and a strong returning cast, was ready to make a serious run at the Top Eight this season after four years of disappointment...
...Eighteenth Voyage, for example, Tichy ponders a problem no smaller than the creation of the universe. A scientist friend has proved to his own and Tichy's satisfaction that the cosmos is "a fluke on the largest possible scale." It exploded from a protoatom that could not have existed; it pulses on borrowed energy as aberrantly as the subatomic particle that violates, for a nanosecond, physical laws. After 18 billion years or so, the universe's "monstrous debt" may come due at any time. Tichy figures out a way to repay it and make everything much nicer...
...finished with 33 saves for the night, most of them down low ("I don't know if it was just a fluke of the game, but they did like to keep the puck down"--Lau), dropping his goals against to 2.71. "I don't think you can say anymore about the defense than that Wade was awesome," said blueline Litchfield...