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...three games, the Crimson never once fell behind Georgia Southern. The Eagles rallied strongly several times in the first and third sets and kept it close in the second, but momentum-killing performances from Ingersoll and McKinley kept them at bay.Determined to keep its commanding leads, Harvard maintained its focus throughout the contest, winning the three sets 25-14, 25-16, 25-16.As for the junior co-captains, Durwood dealt out 34 assists and three digs and Katherine Kocurek supplied another 11 digs.JAMES MADISON 3, HARVARD 1Played fittingly at high noon, the Crimson’s first match...
...those familiar with top-secret rush lingo. As the clock counts down, and your team is nearing a thrilling victory, your job is only beginning. While the rest of the crowd loses control, frolics about, and “high-fives” each other, you must maintain complete focus at all times. If you don’t, your rush could end before it even started. I’ll give you an example. My freshman year, Harvard traveled to Yale and competed in probably the greatest playing of the Game in the storied history of its rivalry with...
...common for Harvard students to make fun of their overly-zealous peers who have a laser-like focus on becoming doctors or investment bankers. Some of that derision may be deserved. But there is much to admire in pursuing a clearly articulated career goal. For those without a professional plan (and even for those who do have one) there is an implicit mission inherent in attending the world’s greatest university: to sate one’s intellectual curiosity. No minor administrative hurdles and no trivial commute should stand in the way, no matter what the subject...
...weekend, being four shots down to Princeton wasn’t really too scary,” Harvey said.“We knew we had come from behind in the past,” captain Ali Bode (81-79-160) said. “We try not to focus on score, and that’s really when things fall into place and we start making up the strokes.”Scores were higher yesterday, and a second round 311 allowed Harvard to overtake the Tigers and win the invitational by two strokes.“We actually...
...included the mutilated remains of many women and children. As this sobering report makes clear, the United States still has much work to do in Afghanistan, where the number of terrorist attacks and support for the Taliban insurgency have been rising largely under the radar of a western media focused on elections and the war in Iraq. The U.S. response has been a sloppy counterinsurgency; according to a recent United Nations report, U.S. and NATO forces have been responsible for 577 Afghan civilian deaths this year, 395 of which were due to airstrikes. The immediate objective should thus...