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Winning appears to be both a dominant theme and a trend for Harvard, which has won eight of its last ten matchups, including four out of six matches at the first part of the Ivy League Championships that took place last weekend at Cornell...
...Crimson men’s team is currently in a three-way tie for second place in the Ivy League with Brown and Yale, while the women’s team sits in fourth place. The Harvard women are the defending Ivy League champions, while Penn will attempt to earn its second Ivy title on the men’s side. The teams are looking forward to next weekend, when it resumes its quest for the Ivy League crown in part two of the Ivy Championships at Penn...
...never used that power. Referring to the post-election turmoil, Rafsanjani took no clear sides but made a rare acknowledgment of wrongdoing by regime forces, stating that "unfortunate incidents occurred that were unprecedented in our country, and these incidents caused disputes and in some instances hostilities, and events took place that no Muslim heart could accept. The families of both protesters and officers were harmed, and one must sympathize with and tend to them all." (See the top 10 players in the Iranian political crisis...
...opposition may want to test the government further, however. Talk on the street is that the next opportunity for protests may come with an ancient Zoroastrian fire festival that takes place in mid-March, just before the Persian New Year, around the start of spring. Meanwhile, opposition websites and social-media channels cited a meeting between Mousavi and Karroubi this week that had Karroubi calling for a referendum on the popularity of Ahmadinejad's government. But that muffled noise is all that can be mustered nowadays. Speaking via official media, Rafsanjani may be signaling, louder than he has since...
...when he won a silver medal in the individual "normal hill" event (the designation refers to the competition that's held on the smaller of the two ski-jumping towers, but there's nothing normal about hurling yourself 100 m off a ramp on skis). But America's second-place finish in the team event on Wednesday, behind gold-medal winner Austria, was even sweeter, as it showed the collective strength of the program. (See the latest pictures from the 2010 Winter Games...