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...Crimson blanked Yale with ease, 9-0, before downing Brown, 7-2, to claim a piece of the league cake. The final crowning came three days later against a hapless Dartmouth squad. With that win, Harvard capped off its perfect Ivy season and successfully avenged last year's second-place finish to the Bears...
Remember Mother Nature's April Fool's joke last year? Twenty-seven inches of snow in 11 hours. The Law School shut down for the day for the first time in 18 years. A hapless tutor's car was crushed by an uprooted tree in front of Eliot House. As undergraduates returning from the sunny climes of the Bahamas and Cancun groaned and grumbled, you could almost hear the old lady chuckling in anticipation of future pranks. Well, have no fear, she mistimed it this year--the last-gasp-of-winter blizzard came a week earlier this time, when...
Even without senior midfielder Lou Bevilacqua, out with an injured knee, the Crimson had too much firepower for the hapless Eagles to handle. Owen Leary and Crofton tested B.C. goalie Anthony Cirri three times early before fellow senior Jared Chupaila scored, bouncing a shot five-hole...
...shareholders have suffered more than those of Green Tree, which was founded in 1975 in St. Paul, Minn., and has long been an industry leader. Hapless Green Tree investors have seen their stock sink from $50 a share last October to just $19 before it rebounded a bit to close at $24 last week. Coss, 59, a former used-car salesman who sports jeans and cowboy boots off the job, has seen the value of his own shares fall from $330 million to $145 million. Such misery has plenty of company: more than 20 Green Tree competitors have lost anywhere...
...tourists come and go each day, carrying back with them a little piece of Harvard history. Sure, sometimes they are annoying. They get in the way and take pictures of hapless students when they are not looking, but deep down every Harvard student likes to have tourists on campus. It is a good feeling to know that this school attracts students and others from all over the world to gaze at our ivory tower and that we are able to share its glory...