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...Harvard women’s squash team (7-5, 4-3 Ivy) fell to Trinity (14-3), 6-3, Friday morning in the first round of the season-ending eight-team Howe Cup, but rallied with convincing 9-0 victories over Stanford (6-6) and Dartmouth (10-6) over the weekend to win the consolation bracket and take fifth place in the tournament. The fifth-place finish capped a long season for the young team, which started only freshman and sophomores for most of the year. With only one senior on the roster, nearly the entire squad returns next year...
...according to her firmly conservative views. Indeed, the votes had barely been counted last week when she announced a shake-up of her Cabinet. Ousted from his post as Foreign Secretary was Francis Pym, who had differed with Thatcher on a number of issues. His replacement is Sir Geoffrey Howe, who as Thatcher's Chancellor of the Exchequer proved himself a trusted instrument of her economic policies. Howe's successor at Treasury is Nigel Lawson, formerly Secretary of Energy and another loyal Thatcherite. Deputy Prime Minister and Home Secretary William Whitelaw, whom Thatcher considered too moderate, has been elevated...
...remarkable memory for names of wives and children, and she can be gracious in embarrassing moments. Once, at a dinner at Chequers, a nervous waitress spilled a plate of roast beef and gravy on the Treasury's Sir Geoffrey Howe. Thatcher leaped to the terrified girl's side and comforted her: "There, there, dear. It could happen to anybody...
...It’s never fun to come so close and lose, but we don’t have time to dwell on the negative,” assistant coach Christopher Smith said. The players will try to use the lessons learned from the losing streak at the Howe Cup—the collegiate squash team national championships coming up Feb. 22-24. “Losing the past four matches is really good motivation going into the Howe Cup,” sophomore No. 3 Katherine O’Donnell said. The Crimson got off to a slow start...
...rough around the edges,” senior Supriya Balsekar said. “We had no matches for 70 days [over Christmas break and exams].”PRINCETON 6, HARVARD 3In a rematch of last season’s Howe Cup Final, No. 2 Princeton overwhelmed Harvard, 6-3, giving the Crimson its third consecutive loss to the Tigers.Freshmen No. 2 Alisha Mashruwala and No. 5 Bethan Williams each earned tough five- and four-set victories, respectively, to raise their team-leading records to 7-1. Mashruwala won the first two games 10-8 and 9-1 before...