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...women’s fencing teams were busy this weekend as they faced six separate teams, but Harvard was boosted by some unexpected standout individual performances. Both teams beat Sacred Heart by a score of 21-6 yesterday at the Malkin Athletic Center. In dual-meet play, nine bouts are fought for each weapon—with three fencers in each weapon facing off in round-robin play—for a total of 27 bouts. The men’s side won all three weapons, 7-2 in saber, 8-1 in foil, and 6-3 in epee...
...pressure throughout the game, taking 47 shots overall, 27 of which were on target. Even after Taylor slammed in the game-winning goal, the Crimson was not in the clear, as Dartmouth turned up the intensity, pulling Big Green goalie Mike Devine to strengthen the attack. Richter notched nine of his 10 third-period saves after Taylor’s goal to preserve...
...Harris each finished with nine, and Housman added eight. But the three top scorers on the season were able to make strong contributions in other areas: Harris led the team with eight rebounds and three blocks and recorded a career-high five assists, tying Lin for the game high...
...September 1987, the superstitious General Ne Win who headed the military junta in Burma (renamed Myanmar soon thereafter) banned all high value banknotes that were not divisible by nine. People in a country blighted by years of the junta’s despotism and economic mismanagement lost their savings overnight. This triggered Burma’s first massive uprising, with its indelible image of saffron and red clad monks marching with overturned bowls—a refusal to take alms from the junta or its soldiers amounted to excommunication. On Sept. 18, 1988, the army opened gunfire on a crowd...
...city of Cambridge also uses a variant of instant-runoff voting to elect its nine city councillors and six School Committee members...