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...Specter of Iran One indirect objective of the Gaza offensive might have been to warn off Israel's other nonstate militant foe: Hizballah. While the Lebanese group has been cheering on Hamas from the sidelines, it has refrained from entering the fray. Hizballah may have a stockpile of new rockets, but Israeli generals hope Gaza will serve as a cautionary example of what would happen if it used them. This is a reassuring thought, but it remains to be tested. After all, Hizballah's rockets have only one purpose, and that is to be used against Israel...
...arrival of Quinnipiac at Bright Hockey Center on Saturday provided the Harvard women’s hockey team with a chance for redemption after the previous night’s defeat. Coming off a tight 1-0 loss to divisional foe Princeton on Friday, the Crimson (6-6-3, 6-3-2 ECAC) took advantage of a shoddy Quinnipiac defense while simultaneously keeping scoring opportunities for the Bobcats (3-18-2, 2-7-2 to a minimum in a 3-1 victory. Saturday’s game also provided senior goaltender Brittany Martin with another chance to reestablish her previously...
...there can be little rest for the weary, as the Harvard men’s basketball team will soon find out. Three days after a heart-breaking 81-76 double-overtime loss at home to Northeastern, the Crimson return to action tomorrow as it battles another tough non-conference foe in George Washington tomorrow at 2 p.m. in the nation’s capital. Down by seven points in the final minutes of regulation to the Huskies, Harvard stunned the crowd by rallying to force overtime. Several clutch baskets by Northeastern denied the Crimson a thrilling win, but its spirited...
...Tallett said. “We have a young team, and we’ve been going through some growing pains and learning about how hard it is to win on the road.” The Fighting Sioux are coming into the game after skating against another ECAC foe, Cornell, in a two-game series at Grand Forks. North Dakota took the first game 7-3, only to fall to Cornell by a score of 2-1 the next night. North Dakota, which averages 2.57 goals per game compared with a 3.57 goals-against average, is entering Cambridge determined...
...expense of virtually every other Ivy League school, good coaches or not. Yale joins Dartmouth, Columbia, Brown, and Cornell among the list of Ivy schools that has lost at least seven of the last eight to Harvard, and Lafayette could be added to the list as a non-league foe. Princeton has lost six of the last eight, while even Penn, long the powerhouse of the league, has dropped three of the last four to the Crimson...