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With Harvard’s record right now standing at 8-0 and Murphy’s squad primed for a Herculean match-up of Ivy League undefeateds this week with the University of Pennsylvania, Vittori—who has only missed one game this season, when the Crimson was at Lafayette in faraway Easton, Pa.—waits with eager anticipation for the weekend...

Author: By Robert C. Boutwell, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: WHAT A'BOUT' ROB?: Former Football Players Reflect on Experience | 11/10/2004 | See Source »

...half of what Democrats had speculated in their most vehement attacks. And, of course, combined it means the costs of the war in Iraq are actually increasing—last fall Congress allocated $87 billion for FY 2004. Passing this new sum through Congress may well be a Herculean task...

Author: By The Crimson Staff, | Title: The Price Tag of War | 11/1/2004 | See Source »

Harvard senior wide receiver Brian Edwards has not been able to put up the same kinds of Herculean numbers that he put up early on last season so far in the Crimson’s 4-0 2004 campaign. The constant double teams that the senior has faced this season have allowed sophomore wide receiver Corey Mazza to receive single coverage almost every time he lines up opposite of Edwards. That was particularly evident on Saturday against Cornell as Mazza caught nine passes for 194 yards, a career best...

Author: By Robert C. Boutwell, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Receiver Tandem Sparks Crimson | 10/14/2004 | See Source »

...Stevenson to dance his way to an even higher world mark. Then he needs them and the other 110 U.S. track-and-field athletes in Greece to pass their drug tests. Then track and field can at least start healing. What a perfect place for a Herculean task...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Track and Field: New Kids in the Blocks | 8/9/2004 | See Source »

...make up for lost time, Beijing has promised an enormous boost in energy infrastructure that, it says, will alleviate the shortfalls by 2006. The nation expects to double its energy capacity by 2010, to 650,000 megawatts. But even that Herculean effort, combined with a much-publicized plan to cool down the economy and relieve pressure on the energy sector, might not be enough. "It's a little hard to believe that if China maintains growth rates of 6-8% that all of a sudden these shortages will disappear overnight in 2006," says Joseph Jacobelli, a Hong Kong-based regional...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China's Long, Dark Summer | 6/28/2004 | See Source »

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