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...opening victory since 2004 with a 3-2 win over non-conference foe Rivier. Keeping up its momentum, the Crimson defeated its first two league opponents the following weekend, tallying back-to-back sweeps of Rutgers-Newark and Sacred Heart.But Harvard failed to continue its winning streak against league rival and eventual Hay champion Springfield, whose performance boosted it into a new division next season. The Crimson nabbed an early one-game lead against the Pride, topping Springfield with a score of 30-16, but the Pride roared back and took the next three games for a 3-1 victory...
...Fighting Irish. The second varsity followed suit with the victory but bested the Midwestern visitor by only one second. The novice eight was dominant for a second time, enjoying an 11-second lead over second place.The next weekend, the heavyweights travelled to the Housatonic River to face Ivy rival Yale and southern powerhouse Virginia. In tough conditions, The Black and White proved its mettle by beating then-No. 3 Virginia in both the first and second varsity eights and beating both Yale and Virginia in the novice eight. The comeback in the first varsity over the Cavaliers was epic...
...finally snared it in 1980. That year, he had run an underdog's race against Ronald Reagan for the nomination, won or came in second in most contests and reluctantly ended his campaign after the Michigan primary. When he dropped out, few people thought Reagan would tap his top rival to be his partner. Reagan didn't care for Bush much, found him to be a bit too effete, had not liked the way Bush had handled himself at a few key moments in the primary. Plus, they were from two different wings of the GOP: Reagan hailed from...
...many observers, the city of Abyei, on the fault-line between North and South Sudan, is the key to the country's future. On May 14, it exploded. What appeared to have been a small incident between rival militias on its outskirts quickly escalated into full-scale fighting, and there was little a small band of U.N. peacekeepers could do to contain...
...over the next few days. As 60,000 civilians fled into the bush, others darted into their mud huts to retrieve assault rifles and join the fighting. By its end several days later, much of Abyei was a smoldering ruin. Fighters continued to loot and torch thatched huts in rival areas. The northern army said 21 of its men had been killed. The southerners refused to give a death toll, but the bodies of several of their guerrillas lay in the streets, their boots removed...