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...Crimson took a 29-28 lead on a McKinley kill, but the Huskies’ Jillian Robinson answered to make it even at 29. A point later, a service ace from Northeastern’s Britney Brown secured the 31-29 Huskies victory. Northeastern stormed out of the gate in the third frame, taking a 7-0 lead behind Kira Batura’s serve. Harvard chipped away at the lead, but it proved too little too late as the Crimson came up short, 30-24. The final game exhibited back-and-forth play at the start, but the Huskies...
...talked about their hitters and a lot of them have pretty high verticals, so we waited a little longer on them,” senior captain Suzie Trimble said. “It was smart blocking on our part.” Harvard was slow out of the gate due to poor serve receive, getting off to an early 5-1 deficit. That was all the Wildcats needed to take the first frame, as the Crimson failed to draw any closer than three points, en route to a 30-20 UNH victory. In game two, the Wildcats picked up right...
Within three weeks, the police vans disappeared from the streets, and women once again pushed back their veils, albeit with apprehension. To be on the safe side, I dressed conservatively for an appointment at a university in central Tehran. But at the gate a guard told me my manteau, a sort of Islamic overcoat, had "too few buttons," and he refused me admittance. "You look appalling," he said. A fellow guard rebuked him for addressing a "sister" so disrespectfully. The professor I was meeting, a reformer and onetime official, phoned to intervene, but the guards refused to budge. "Sorry, Doctor...
...Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko had initialed only a few hours earlier. Perhaps unconsciously, Scheel spoke of accord in a phrase reminiscent of Bismarck's famed injunction to keep the line open to St. Petersburg, then Imperial Russia's capital. Said Scheel: "We have opened a gate to the East...
...auspicious time of 8:08 p.m. on Aug. 8, precisely one year before the Olympic Games are to open in Beijing, China held a celebration of the coming festivities in Tiananmen Square. The Gate of Heavenly Peace, where Mao Zedong's portrait still hangs, was bathed in red and gold light for the event, which featured intricately choreographed dance routines, multiple pop stars and, of course, fireworks...