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...final set, giving it the momentum to hand the Crimson a 25-8 loss.HARVARD 3, CENTRAL CONNECTICUT STATE 1Starting off strong, the Crimson knocked out back-to-back victories in the first two sets (25-21, 25-23) against the Blue Devils. And although CCSU fought back for a 25-23 win in the third frame, Harvard remained in control to clinch a 25-23 victory in the final set to take the match.“[The win against CCSU] felt really great, especially because we lost the third game and came back and won the fourth game after...
...sophomore Alexi Chijoff-Evans won the first set and took the second to six all in the second set tiebreaker. “At that point, I knew my body would give up,” Chijoff-Evans said. Heavey hit two masterful shots to take the set and fought through Chijoff-Evans most spirited efforts to win the third 7-5. “The weekend’s play was very encouraging,” Harvard coach Dave Fish ’72 said. “The main thing we’ve seen is that these...
...Those "other men" were the fascist Italian troops allied with the Nazi occupiers. "From their point of view," La Russa said of the Nembo division, which served alongside the Germans in Rome, they "fought in the belief they were defending their country." La Russa's Sept. 8 speech was the second time in two days that a top leader of Italy's "post-fascist" National Alliance party - a key ally in Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's ruling coalition - had opened wounds that most Italians have considered closed for decades...
...excesses of the leaders from what they consider a worthy ideology and the good intentions of its followers. In some sense, the comments by La Russa and Alemanno express the two halves of the nostalgia in fascist circles. La Russa sought to defend the legacy of the soldiers who fought, and sometimes died, in pro-Mussolini forces. Alemanno hinted at the need in Italy for the kind of rigidly controlled, law-abiding society that was said to have existed under fascism...
...more on financial aid. But he did praise a slew of financial aid increases last year from the nation’s wealthiest universities, including a $22-milion expansion at Harvard, as “self-correcting.” Harvard and other schools with billion-dollar endowments have fought efforts to legislate payout rates, saying that donor restrictions and inconsistent returns require more flexibility than a mandate would allow. “We must balance our use of its income to support the current generation against our duty to preserve its purchasing power for future generations...