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...strengths was not giving up by the end of the season,” junior tri-captain Sara Flood said. “By the last few games, we knew we wouldn’t make it to the tournament, but we still fought for some wins...
...showed its mettle following a loss, downing Yale and Cornell to set up a showdown against 2007 Ivy League champion Brown.“Going to Brown had that extra edge,” incoming co-captain Andre Akpan said. “[The game] was passionate and hard-fought, and something about the atmosphere really made us take off.”In the end, the much-anticipated matchup was not even close, as Harvard destroyed its fierce rivals, 4-1, in Providence.The win put on display the main strength of the team: an extremely potent counterattack. All season...
...When it’s five games and 25 points, you really can’t tell by looking at the score,” McKinley said. “We fought for every point...
...manager of a Dubai real estate brokerage, Imran Mohamed, a Scot of Pakistani descent, had a front-row seat at one of the most incredible property bubbles ever. Early last year, a few months before the height of the emirate's boom, he fought his way through the lines at the opening sale of a new waterfront condominium development. Such launches always attracted crowds of investors eager to get the first shot at a new offering, but the buzz that day was especially intense, remembers Mohamed. (He asks that his real name not be used because his company...
Vladimir Putin, Russia's Prime Minister and former President, is not renowned for his love of literature. But on Sunday he gave Russian journalists an unexpected reading tip: the diaries of Anton Denikin, a commander in the White Army, which fought the Bolsheviks after the revolution in 1917. (See TIME's photos of last year's war in Georgia...