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Hench was first fouled trying to make a run into the offensive third. Junior defender Matt Edwards stepped up to take the indirect kick, and hit a short ball on the ground to Hench, who was making a hard run to the near post. The senior had clearly beaten his man and was pulled down only six yards from...
Stunned, the Crimson defense never regained its focus, and let up a second goal off of another Quaker cross from deep in Harvard's end. This time the centering pass came from the left side and found senior forward Reginald Veal moving across the goal mouth towards the near post. Veal flicked the ball with his left foot to the right side of the net and beat Mejias, who was moving the other...
Similar to Berman's near miss, Stewart's strike off a free-kick sailed just over the Eagle crossbar after beating Schaeffer...
Veterans, like senior Alexis Todor and junior Angie Peluse, who each posted wins with near-personal best times, proved the improvements made this year to the returners. In fact, Todor's 100-breaststroke time of 1:05.93 was only .3 seconds slower than her shaved-and-tapered time at last year's Ivy Championships...
...premonition came disastrously true. Half an hour after lifting off from New York City en route to Cairo, the Boeing 767-300 ER dropped from 33,000 to 16,700 ft. in less than 40 sec., hurtling downward at nearly the speed of sound. For a moment, the plane seemed to catch itself and climbed upward for more than a mile before peeling into a final fatal dive. At 10,000 ft., radar records suggest that the plane broke apart, sprinkling shards of the 767 and its human cargo into the waters off the Massachusetts coast. The wild ride lasted...