Word: metro
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Boston Metro club team, one of Harvard's most frequent competitors, downed the Crimson in Thursday night's opening match, 15-5, but the Crimson did manage to stay close in the first quarter, a rare feat against the older, stronger and more experienced Metro squad...
Heading into this weekend's tournament at Brown, the women's water polo team felt confident that it could handle its competition. While the Metro-Boston club team has always posed a stiff challenge, the other schools Harvard faced--Princeton, M.I.T. and Brown--have rarely fielded strong teams...
Unfortunately, however, the Crimson could not maintain its intensity all weekend long, easily handling M.I.T. and Princeton, but falling to an experienced Metro-Boston team and an aggressive Brown squad...
...Friday Harvard struggled against Metro-Boston, a club team staffed by seasoned water polo veterans from the Boston area. After falling behind in the first half, the Crimson played close defense and strong offense for the rest of the game, dropping the contest...
Statistics do indicate a rise in police-brutality cases in many urban areas. In the Metro Miami area, 111 excessive-force complaints were filed last year, up from 67 in 1985. During the same years, the number of Washington's complaints jumped from 299 to 415, while Chicago's went from 2,084 to 2,476. Yet experts seem divided over whether instances of police brutality are actually rising nationwide or whether the number of complaints has increased because of greater public awareness...