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...hundreds of small local miners, without the sophisticated machinery or the credit lines of the big guys, can continue to tunnel ever deeper to follow the vein. Whether plucky independent owners like Money A. Yousuph?who hasn't pulled out any tanzanite since 2002, when he sold a 2.2-lb. chunk for $275,000 at a Las Vegas trade fair?get lucky. "I'm about to," he says confidently...
...great coaching staff and wrestling partners,” O’Connor said. “It’s neat, but it’s not something I’d be concerned about at all going into [the EIWAs].”Juniors Bobby Latessa (157 lb.) and Matt Button (165 lb.) both won by one-point margins to give Harvard the lead.Freshman Fred Rowsey lost 8-4 at 174, but sophomore Louis Caputo (184 lb.) gave the Crimson a cushion with a pin of his opponent in 5:11.Bucknell won the next two matches...
...University next Friday, and will return home for the first time this season to wrestle Brown and Franklin & Marshall on Saturday. PENN 28, HARVARD 12Against the Quakers (6-5, 2-0), Harvard took a quick lead by taking three of the first four matches on the day. The 133-lb. bout featured the two wrestlers in the 2006 EIWA finals—No. 2 Matt Valenti and tri-captain Robbie Preston, ranked 10th in the nation. Valenti had defeated Preston in the EIWA finals, 4-2, and Preston could not manage to return the favor, falling 5-1 after...
...matches and lost only four to beat Army at Gillis Fieldhouse Sunday afternoon. Harvard improved to 1-5 overall and 1-2 against conference opponents, while Army fell to 8-4 overall and 0-1 in the EIWA.Getting this started for the Crimson was No. 14 Preston (133 lb.), who outwrestled William Simpson in less than three minutes, winning by fall. Preston started a string of five victories for Harvard, which proved enough to seal the match. Tri-captain Max Meltzer (141 lb.) followed Preston with an overtime win against Matthew Kyler. O’Connor, ranked sixth...
...Barbaro watchers are left to wonder if the last eight months of pain and hope were really worth it. In virtually all such injuries, the racehorse would be euthanized - the unfortunate cost of a brutal, beautiful sport, where 1,200-lb. beasts fire down tracks on bean-pole legs. But Barbaro wasn't your typical horse. Whatever you think, Barbaro fought hard, and the fact that there was even talk of releasing him was a medical miracle. Isn't a near-miracle worth the try? It's a story with an unhappy ending, but the Jacksons got the timing right...