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...when the Wildcats won two of three doubles matches for the all-important point. In following that performance, Northwestern then nailed down three singles matches to edge Harvard. Sophomore Ashwin Kumar dropped the decisive contest at the No. 1 spot by two tiebreaks. Harvard travels back to the Land of Lincoln to face the University of Illinois next Sunday in Champaigne. —THE CRIMSON STAFF
...Jungen is something of a cultural hybrid himself. His father, born in Switzerland, was 3 when he came to British Columbia with Jungen's grandparents, who had been enticed to Canada by government promises of farmable land. His mother was of native background, a member of the Dane-zaa Nation. "Interracial couples were very taboo," he says. "White guys could have native girls as girlfriends, but not wives." Jungen grew up on farms around Fort St. John, a once remote oil and logging center in northeastern British Columbia. He was 7 when his parents died in a fire...
...pending Senate approval and President Bush’s signature. These cuts would account for close to a third of the overall $39 billion proposed reduction in federal spending. This legislation deals a further blow to a nation that is struggling to live up to its reputation as the land of opportunity. At the nation’s top 146 colleges, only 3 percent of freshmen come from the poorest quarter of the population. At Harvard, the median family income of students is $150,000 and that’s with the benefit of a Harvard Financial Aid Inititiative, which...
...movement with roots in armed wings that had engaged in bombings and cold-blooded shootings. It was seen—ingenuously, by the left—as little more than an outgrowth of the Irgun and Lehi, heirs to Deir Yassin, implacable in its opposition to sharing or ceding land.”In fact, Begin and Shamir, both on Great Britain’s Most Wanted Terrorists’ list, won the 1977 elections for the same reason that Mishaal and Zahhar defeated Fatah loyalists in last week’s Palestinian elections: the previously dominant party, Labour...
...getting a lot of minutes. They have enormous potential.” “It just all fell together tonight,” Moretzsohn said. The Crimson cooled down a bit after a hot first half. Harvard shot 51.9 percent from the field, 80 percent from three-point land, and didn’t miss a single free-throw in the opening frame. And although its final numbers—48.4 percent field goal shooting, 54.3 percent from beyond the arc, and 77.3 percent from the free-throw line—faltered, it remained the kind of consistent output...