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...feat this time. “We talked about it all week, ’cause we know that guy can shoot,” Brown coach Craig Robinson said. “For him to get 3-of-4 on us in the first half, that was a lack of effort. We talked about it at halftime and made the adjustment. We tried to be near him so that all his shots were contested.” The Bears’ own sharpshooter, McAndrew, finished with a team-high 19 points, despite tough defense from a variety of Harvard...
...rest of the season—combined for only 14 points on 5-of-13 shooting and committed 11 fouls. Although the big men put together one of their stronger rebounding performances of the season, helping the Crimson maintain a 12-board edge over the Bears, the lack of any sort of back-to-the-basket offensive attack was fatal. With no way to slow down their own offense by pounding the ball inside, Harvard was forced to speed its game up to match Brown’s quick-tempo attack, allowing it to comfortably dictate the pace...
...Crimson, however, it was especially invigorating for the Bulldogs, who used the halftime period to regroup after letting a nine-point lead dwindle down to two at the intermission. Whether it was due to the energy of the crowd and the trophy presentation, Harvard’s lack of defense, or simply the Bulldogs superiority as a team, Yale gradually pulled away from the Crimson and coasted down the stretch to its seventh win in its last eight games...
...Cockfighting is quite violent and - for lack of a better word - Osbournesque, as in shockrocker Ozzy Osbourn, not the playwright John Osborne. The first time I saw a gallero stick the bloody head of a wounded rooster in his mouth, suck on it like a popsicle, and then spit out a thick stream of chicken blood, I thought the combination of beer and sun was playing feverish games with my head. Across the arena I saw my friend Jon's face, and he had the same open-mouth-lost-gringo expression that I imagined my face was showing...
...English Department and one course in Scandinavian can provide the “variety of critical and analytical approaches to literature” needed to satisfy the Literature and Arts A requirement. Likewise, tutorials, some of the hardest classes at Harvard, don’t count because they lack a final exam. And because only pedagogical technique matters in Core-world, the material covered has become increasingly specific and trite...