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...After a near-perfect season in which the Harvard women’s hockey team tore through the best competition that its conference had to offer, the Crimson now takes its game to the national stage.No.1 Harvard faces off against the No. 8 Dartmouth Big Green tomorrow afternoon at the Bright Hockey Center in the first round of the NCAA championship. The Crimson met few obstacles in its path to the NCAA tournament, finishing the season 31-1-0 overall and 20-0-0 in ECAC play. Averaging over 3.56 goals per game and only .91 against, Harvard left...
...Crimson couldn’t have asked for a better start to the new year and its Ivy League slate. Harvard played a near-perfect game in an 82-56 thrashing of league foe Dartmouth. The Crimson won both the turnover and rebounding battles and shot 51.8 percent from the field. It also benefited from an 83.3 shooting percentage from the charity stripe and 32 points from its bench. The victory in the team’s Ivy opener snapped a seven-game losing streak that dated back to Dec. 1. “My focus is allowing our team...
...Despite his feisty talk, Gaddafi is a near-perfect customer for Sarkozy, if not quite yet his savior. Flush with revenues from record-high oil prices, the Libyan leader is rebuilding his military virtually from scratch, since decades-long Western sanctions banned him from purchasing arms and replacing broken equipment. "Libya's military inventories during the embargoes degraded to the point of being useless," says Matthew Smith, economics analyst for Jane's, the London-based defense research group. The organization this week estimates Libya's military spending was about $620 million last year - small change for the gargantuan defense industry...
...Arab world after energy-rich Kuwait and Qatar. The report cited Tunisia's low corruption, stable government and educated, French-speaking population. Lying close to Europe's huge markets, and with an enticingly low-cost, well-trained workforce, Tunisia is increasingly seen by European and U.S. companies as a near-perfect base. French carmaker Peugeot recognized these advantages when it recently opted to move its customer-service call center from Lyons to Tunis...
...also named a co-recipient of the Gilda Radner Award, an honor that goes annually to two women most dedicated to promoting cancer awareness throughout the Boston area.And this season, Delaney-Smith also found time to guide a young Crimson squad from an abysmal nonconference performance to a near-perfect Ivy League season and 10th league championship.Despite Delaney-Smith’s extensive experience with Ivy competition—2007 marked her 25th season at Harvard—she knew that this go-around would be a little different. It featured a young team with no established star. It meant...