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...that wanted to succeed,” said former teammate Wade C. Lau ’82. “He very much wanted to break away from being a guy from northern Minnesota and was clearly driven to go beyond all of that...
...water polo is Brown, and the Crimson had fallen to its neighbors from the south the first three times they had met that season. But none of those games were as important as this one, taking place at the semifinals of the College Water Polo Association Northern Division Championships in Harvard’s own pool. The Crimson had to win to guarantee itself a spot at the Eastern Championships the next week, and if tensions were not high enough, Harvard had to live down losing its previous three meetings with the Bears, as well as having suffered a blowout...
...York and California. On the West Coast, the Crimson experienced its toughest loss, a 20-2 rout by then-No. 1 Stanford, and greatest victory at the time–a 17-10 triumph over Cal State Monterey Bay. Harvard returned to the East Coast to compete in the Northern Division Championships, in which the Crimson fell to Hartwick and Brown before crushing Utica and Connecticut College. The two latter teams were no match for Harvard throughout the season; in four matchups with the divisional opponents, the Crimson won by a combined 68 points. The Crimson finished in the middle...
...showed marked improvement through the 2008 season, but the Crimson could not manage to demonstrate its growth in the win column. The young squad struggled often in its fall campaign, amassing a 5-12 (3-5 ECAC) record before ending the season with a sixth-place finish at the Northern Division Championships at MIT in November. “We’re definitely not satisfied with the outcome this past season,” junior Egan Atkinson said, referring to the regression in the team’s record following a 14-16 effort...
...events in Punjab - and thousands of miles away in Austria - point to a broader problem: the dangerous mix of inequitable development and enduring caste-based resentment. The northern state has a higher than national average population of Scheduled Castes, an umbrella term for various lower castes, with 28.95% in Punjab against India's average of 16%. "Dalit Sikhs and Ravidasias, especially in the fertile Doaba belt which sends out a large number of immigrants, have seen immense prosperity lately, and with it, a rising Dalit consciousness and assertion," says Dr. Ronki Ram, reader in the Department of Political Science...