Word: northeastern
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...alas, I will have to wait for another day to fashion myself into a legitimate two-pitch pitcher—no Plimpton this week. The elements intervened, causing Harvard’s game against Northeastern to preempt the Wednesday practice I intended to appear at. Haviland did not make the trip, staying behind to prepare for his Saturday start in Game One of the Ivy Championship Series, so he could not provide counsel...
...berth in this weekend’s best-of-three Ivy League Championship Series with Princeton, the Harvard baseball team was set back by elements beyond its control yesterday. Steady rains postponed an afternoon non-conference duel between the Crimson (20-18-1, 14-6 Ivy) and crosstown foe Northeastern at the Huskies’ Parsons Field. The game has been rescheduled for today at 3 p.m. The rivals last met on April 18 at Fraser Field in Lynn, Mass. for the first round of the Beanpot baseball tournament. In that game, an 8-5 Havard win, freshman lefthander Hampton...
...assassination of a pro-L.T.T.E. Tamil activist marked the beginning of a fresh escalation of tit-for-tat violence. Kugenthirasah's suicide attack sent that into overdrive. The Sri Lankan navy and air force responded with artillery strikes and bombing runs on Tiger-held territory near the northeastern town of Trincomalee; at least 10 people died. On April 27, at least five soldiers were killed in two landmine blasts. The same day, the decapitated bodies of five young men thought to be Tamils-two with their hands tied behind their backs-were found in a ditch near a rubber...
Only nature had any hope of stopping the Harvard heavyweights on Saturday morning.And as it turns out, nature didn’t have much luck, either. The Crimson varsity heavyweights demolished Northeastern early, then worked to overcome a brutal cross tailwind and terribly choppy water in a rout over the Huskies early Saturday morning on the Charles River. “The water was basically Class 3 rapids,” varsity seven-seat Andrew Boston said. “I don’t know what to call it—it was almost like white-water rafting...
Peter Manning, a professor at Northeastern University’s College of Criminal Justice, lauded CPD for the decreasing crime rates...