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...repeat performance of last year simply wasn’t in the cards for Harvard. Princeton ultimately stymied the Crimson’s quest for victory, prevailing with 1465 points and thus nabbing its 17th Ivy League championship in school history. Harvard concluded the weekend with a strong second-place finish, racking up 1438 points. Yale (1350), Penn (904.5), and Cornell (734) rounded out the top five...
...Crimson quartet of junior Katy Hinkle, freshman Kelly Robinson, junior Ali Slack, and Pickard completed the 400-yard freestyle relay in third place with a combined time of 3:24.94, behind the first-place Bulldogs (3:20.59) and second-place Tigers (3:22.46). Hinkle also posted an impressive third-place performance in the 100-yard freestyle with a time of 51.15 seconds...
...Crimson’s diving contingent was also integral to the team’s strong finish. Junior Jennifer Reese, sophomore Leslie Rea, and freshman Teagan Lehrmann earned third, fourth, and seventh place, respectively, in the one-meter final...
...Kremlin wants to engineer its own Silicon Valley. In a plan that was revealed in February, the Russian high-tech haven will come complete with new-wave architecture and all the comforts of a resort, a place for Russian geniuses to get together and invent the biggest thing since, well, the Internet. That's the hope, anyway. President Dmitri Medvedev, who has cultivated the image of a tech-savvy liberal, is staking much of his economic vision on the plan's success. And Russia has a resource that other nations envy: a fervid hacker culture with a reputation for excellence...
...game, with the same spirit as puck-crazed kids skating on the frozen ponds of Manitoba and lakes of Minnesota. The passes were fast, the checks crisp, the saves clutch. With 30 seconds left, and Canada holding a 2-1 lead, the 18,000 fans at the Canada Hockey Place, thousands in the streets of Vancouver, and millions watching on television across all North America, could sense it. Canada would realize its dream and take the men's hockey title. (See TIME's brief history of opening ceremonies...