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...faults became increasingly apparent, it would be remiss to assume the squad was resting on underserved laurels. Harvard carried out successive annihilations of Fairfield and Cornell, outscoring the two 9-1, and seemed more than ready to face a surging No. 14 Brown.Scoring seven of the nine goals after halftime in its two-game romp, the Crimson quickly developed a reputation as a second-half team. Despite Harvard’s sterling talent and physical prowess, its imperfections would soon come to a head.The match against the Bears carried major Ivy League implications, and the game teetered on the brink...
...decade, worldwide demand for oil could top supply by as much as nine million barrels per day, the IEA report concludes. It is not difficult to imagine the resulting escalation of international tension as countries scramble to obtain their energy needs. Nor is it hard to foresee the internal chaos another oil shortage will wreak on an unprepared nation. Soon the energy scare of the ‘70s may seem a mild prologue to the real crisis...
...armed federal troops of the 101st Airborne were escorting nine black students into the all-white Little Rock Central High School on Sept. 25, 1957, media worldwide—including The Harvard Crimson—were documenting the beginning of southern school integration. But even as the world was watching intently as Jim Crow was being dismantled, issues of race remained far-removed from the lives of average Harvard students...
...Marriott Wardman Hotel in Washington. As the 30 member Rules & Bylaws Committee heard the various arguments for softening the punishment the DNC had originally meted out to the two states for holding their primaries earlier in the calendar, the audience by and large kept its calm. But then, about nine hours into the seemingly interminable gathering, the crowd turned nasty and the appearance of civility, along with any hopes for party unity, never quite returned...
...earthquake that devastated China's Sichuan province, Liu Li came to the site again where her 15-year-old daughter perished. Today was different, though. As a lone bulldozer slowly worked to clear the rubble from the collapsed Juyuan Middle School, Liu stood in silent protest, along with nine other parents who also lost their only children when the schoolhouse crumbled in the quake. For more than an hour, as tears streamed down her face, Liu, 40, displayed a large photograph of Hui Shan, her daughter. It was a mock magazine cover, done up by the grieving mother and some...