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...Capitol Hill, she helped push through a slew of education policies during the early years of Bill Clinton’s presidency, displaying a relentless drive to shepherd legislation through the halls of Congress, according to Suzanne Day, who worked next door to Spencer and later came to Harvard at her urging...
...She’s relentless in her preparation, and she’s relentless in her performance,” head coach Katey Stone said. “She’s such a competitor...
...match at Columbia. During this slide, in which the Crimson fell to two Ivy opponents and crosstown rivals Boston College and Boston University, the team’s 1-0 overtime loss at home to the No. 20 Princeton Tigers ended Harvard’s championship quest. Despite a relentless defensive effort in which junior goalkeeper Kylie Stone stopped nine shots, the Tigers found a way to convert off a penalty corner to end the game. The 2007 season featured a competitive Ivy League that saw four teams, including the Crimson, entering the last weekend of the schedule...
...yards—the defense completely manhandled the Bulldog offense. With McLeod shut down, Yale was forced to turn to the passing game. Averaging just 116.2 yards per game passing coming in, the Bulldogs were woefully unprepared for the air-based attack. Yale quarterback Matt Polhemus, under relentless pressure from the Crimson defense, finished 2-for-18 for just 29 yards and two interceptions while being sacked twice...
...when Scotland Yard realized that a serial killer was loose in the area, and Fleet Street helped create the legend - and even the name - of the knife-wielding "Ripper." Until the brutal slayings ended some two and a half years later, sensationalistic coverage of the Ripper was relentless, his exploits recounted by reporters and artists in a manner that exposed the squalor of Whitechapel to a fascinated audience - and shaped London's perception of the East End. Playwright George Bernard Shaw once remarked that Jack the Ripper did more than any social reformer to draw attention to the intolerable conditions...