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BOSTON––The No. 1 Harvard women’s hockey team brought the Beanpot trophy back to Cambridge last night, pulling out a hard-fought victory over cross-town rival Boston University. The Crimson (23-1-0, 18-0-0 ECAC) defeated the Terriers (12-13-3, 8-6-1 Hockey East) by a count of 3-1 at Walter Brown Arena.“It feels great,” Harvard coach Katey Stone said. “Certainly one of our goals in the beginning of the season was to recapture the Beanpot...
...Penn proved to be a challenge for Harvard, but the Crimson won key victories. In one of the most exciting matches of the day, junior captain Verdi DiSesa was beating Quaker sophomore Mark Froot, 2-0, when Froot came back to even the match at 2-2. In a hard-fought fifth and final game, Froot had a 6-0 lead on DiSesa, but the focused and unwavering captain came back with nine unanswered points to win the game and the match. Harvard freshmen J. Reed Endresen and Richard Hill contributed to the Crimson victory by swiftly beating their opponents...
...ECAC) beat Yale (9-10-5, 6-7-3 ECAC) by a score of 3-0, riding on the strength of some early scoring and yet another shutout by sophomore goalie Christina Kessler on the way to victory.“It was a hard-fought game,” Harvard coach Katey Stone said. “Everybody’s going to play their best when they play against us…Whenever you can be one goal better than somebody, at least, then good things are going on.”For Kessler—who made...
...final irony, according to Wexler, is that because even Super Tuesday may not solidify either Clinton's or Obama's hold on the nomination in this unusually hard-fought primary season, "if Florida had kept its primary election date where it was, it may well have played a greater role in deciding the nominee." That said, however, he still believes the Florida result will influence Super Tuesday voters even if it won't count on the delegate tally board. And he and other state Democratic leaders remain convinced, like state Republicans, that it was necessary for Florida to strike...
...grading - and scolding when those notes slide - has elicited mirth, skepticism and indignation from Sarkozy's political opponents and pundits. Will Higher Education Minster Valérie Pécresse, for example, have to stand in a symbolic corner if evaluators find too few campuses have embraced her hard-fought university reform? Will French voters actually applaud Immigration and National Identity Minister Brice Hortefeux if he scores high on one of his criteria: expelling enough illegal immigrants to meet the numerical quotas that detractors decry as inhumane? Can Culture Minister Christine Abanel really be held responsible for "the evolution...