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...Harvard women’s basketball team knocked off its second Ivy League foe in as many days on Saturday behind strong performances from senior Laura Robinson and freshman Katie Rollins. The Crimson (7-11, 3-2 Ivy) dominated Cornell with an improved defense and red-hot three-point shooting to grab an 80-71 victory. Rollins, a strong inside threat, sat for much of the first half because she incurred two quick fouls. In the second frame, however, her strong post moves and light touch helped Harvard quell potential threats from the pesky...
...right back in the hunt.’”The process began with a hard-fought 6-3 road win at feisty Providence. Then the holidays came early in the form of two cupcakes at home versus whipping girl Union. Next, Harvard handled another dangerous non-conference foe with a 3-1 dismissal of Connecticut on Thursday night. Meanwhile, Stone’s preachings about this six-game season weren’t falling on deaf ears. The team, its leaders especially, were buying into the proposition. “We talked about making this six-game stretch...
...gone about it in different ways, depending on the forces that were arrayed against them. Dwight Eisenhower, confronting a hostile Congress, made his mark with his veto pen. Ronald Reagan rid his White House of the aides whose incompetence and duplicity had produced Iran-contra, and engaged the Soviet foe he had once called an "evil empire." After Bill Clinton got past impeachment, he did what he could by Executive Order and picked his shots with Republicans on Capitol Hill--for instance, demanding more education spending in must-pass bills at the end of the year--boosting his popularity...
...loss, Clarkson continued its surprising start by upending Dartmouth in a tight 1-0 victory. With the win, the Golden Knights moved to 4-0-0, and are the only team to have won all its conference contests to date.AROUND THE LEAGUEIn another intriguing matchup involving an ECAC foe this weekend, No. 9 Princeton split its series with No. 10 Ohio State. The Tigers won 4-1 on Friday and then could not hold up in the defensive battle on Saturday, losing to the Buckeyes by a score of 2-1. Next week, Princeton will face the powerful Northern rivals...
...dustup with the Karabilah tribe, which had allied with Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's Al Qaeda in Iraq group. So, the al-Mahal were kicked out of Huseybah and the jihadis moved in. Now, the al-Mahal are back helping their erstwhile enemies, the Marines, drive out their tribal foe-most of the fighters resisting Operation Steel Curtain are presumed to be from the Karabilah tribe. Ubaidi, about nine miles east of Huseybah, is considered a stronghold of foreigners...