Word: gymnasium
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After dropping its first contest in its opening six games heading into a showdown with Boston University (BU) at Case Gymnasium tonight, the Harvard men’s basketball team could have used a helping hand.Now, it turns out, the Crimson (5-1) will have to deal with a hurt one.Junior center Brian Cusworth has a small fracture of the third metacarpal on his left hand. Cusworth suffered the injury during the first half of Harvard’s 87-79 loss to Central Connecticut State on Saturday.“It was a hustle play,” Cusworth...
...captain Elizabeth Blotky said. PRINCETON 3, HARVARD 0 Although the Tigers were challenged fiercely in two of three games, Princeton proved the more experienced team in the clutch as it knocked off Harvard 3-0 (33-31, 30-25, 32-30) on Saturday night at the Dillon Gymnasium in Princeton, N.J. The Crimson actually had three game points, two in the first game and another in the third, but couldn’t put either frame away thanks to a steady Tiger performance in game one and a strong Princeton rally in the third frame...
...terrorists loyal to Chechen rebel leader Shamil Basayev. At least 331 people died, including 186 children, in a chaotic rescue operation during which Russian security forces hit the school with incendiary grenades and tank shells. The fire brigade waited two hours before putting out the blaze that engulfed the gymnasium in which the hostages were being held...
...This week the first anniversary of the crisis will be formally marked with speeches and ceremonies in the old school gymnasium. A monument, which locals say will include a gold-painted structure said to depict a tree of life, will be unveiled at the cemetery where most casualties are buried. Next week, two new schools will open, one with tennis courts and the other with a pool. After a year of near-total silence, Putin has said he will meet a vociferously critical group of mothers who lost children in the tragedy...
...Soviet delegations; both pleaded the burdens of work. But with a news black-out in effect much of the time, reporters bore no such burdens. The Icelanders essentially put on a huge trade show for their captive audience of some 2,000 journalists. The basketball court in the gymnasium of a local high school was transformed into the "Iceland Center," complete with a generous spread of local delicacies (herring, smoked lamb and skyr, which is said to taste like honey-flavored yogurt). Outside the press center, half a dozen honey-colored Icelandic ponies pranced in a light rain while their...