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After the disappointing opening home loss to Dartmouth—perhaps its main rival for the Ivy crown—the Harvard women’s basketball team had three weeks to mull over the fact that it needed to sweep this weekend’s play to kick start its season. Two games, two wins, job done.In dominating the first 18 minutes against Princeton, the Crimson showed why it was the preseason favorite to win the conference. Harvard (10-7, 2-1 Ivy) jumped out to a 41-22 lead en route to an 82-73 victory over...

Author: By Jay M. Cohen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Overcoming Princeton, Crimson Rounds Out Sweep of Killer P’s | 2/2/2009 | See Source »

Every day is Groundhog Day for zookeeper Doug Schwartz. Schwartz has been working with animals for over 15 years, but his main charge is Staten Island Chuck, the 10-pound, two-year-old groundhog who serves as New York City's answer to Punxsutawney Phil. Chuck has a knack for accurate predictions, but he only gets trotted out once a year and doesn't even have a permanent display at the zoo. So what does he do the rest of the time? TIME talks to Schwartz about caring for Chuck and how the animal makes his Groundhog Day prediction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Groundhog Handler Doug Schwartz | 2/2/2009 | See Source »

...very successful in his predictions. I'm proud of my boy! Punxsutawney Phil is my main competitor, but he only has a 43% accuracy. You can flip a coin and come out basically the same predictions. But my boy is right 85% of the time. You can't argue with a good product. You want accurate readings, you go to Chuck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Groundhog Handler Doug Schwartz | 2/2/2009 | See Source »

...first loss of the season, falling to archrival Princeton, 193-160, in the annual Harvard-Yale-Princeton meet. With the Crimson’s 251-102 victory over Yale, Harvard finished its dual-meet season registering an 8-1 overall, 6-1 Ivy record. The Crimson’s main focus for the two-day double dual meet was the Tigers, with whom they remained neck and neck for the entire weekend. Harvard led Princeton 96-90 at the end of Saturday’s competition at Blodgett pool, with both teams swapping the lead throughout the course of Sunday...

Author: By Alexandra J. Mihalek, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Splits HYP Meet, Dealt First Loss by Princeton | 2/1/2009 | See Source »

...thinking, we must do both, and quickly." In the blueprint, Steele clearly borrows key elements of Obama's groundbreaking tactic for generating record levels of donations with innovative social-networking tools. He calls himself a "technology geek," and already posted on the RNC's main website is his "Network for the Future," which features links to Facebook, YouTube, Flickr, Twitter, LinkedIn and blip.tv. At the very least, Steele knows his party needs to play catch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Steele Makes History, but Can the New Party Chief Remake the GOP? | 1/31/2009 | See Source »

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