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...team win yesterday. In the second quarter, the speedy Nwokocha shocked the Elis with a 94-yard kickoff return for a touchdown. It was the longest such return by a Harvard player against Yale, and it was the first TD return for Harvard in 17 years. Despite this Herculean effort, Nwokocha lost to Yale for the third straight time, and for the second and final time at home...
...team win yesterday. In the second quarter, the speedy Nwokocha shocked the Elis with a 94-yard kickoff return for a touchdown. It was the longest such return by a Harvard player against Yale, and it was the first TD return for Harvard in 17 years. Despite this Herculean effort, Nwokocha lost to Yale for the third straight time, and for the second and final time at home...
...hype to call Felix Savon's boxing record Herculean: 266 wins, nine losses; six world amateur championships since 1986 and gold medals in the past two Olympics. You'd think a Cuban fighter who has owned the ring like that for the past 15 years could retire to a beach hammock with a tall glass of Havana Club and a Cohiba...
...thin air--well, things start to get a little suspicious. As we went to change our clocks this past weekend, it became necessary to ask ourselves the tough questions: Is it not unjust to deny precious seconds to a student demographic whose schedule-juggling is already a feat of Herculean proportions? Why does no one think to factor in the additional ten minutes that we lose in our attempts to readjust our watches? Why does it always seem to fall right after spring break, when we need that extra hour of detox more desperately than ever...
...trip to announce any dramatic new Vatican policy. Instead, as the week progressed, it became clear that he hoped that while tiptoeing through the political minefields, he could come to this most disputatious of territories and, through the force of his stooped presence and still Herculean will, simply inspire good...