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...next night, Cornell had not only suffered its first league setback—a 60-56 loss to Dartmouth Friday night—but also found itself watching the Crimson pass it by on the scoreboard and in the standings. After taking care of business in a 65-36 rout at reeling Columbia—and noting the Big Red’s loss to Dartmouth, a team Harvard beat last month—the Crimson headed into Ithaca, N.Y., and leaped into a tie for first place with a 71-57 victory over Cornell. After an 0-6 start...
...Serena Williams, 25, her third Australian Open championship and eighth Grand Slam event, in a stunning display of force that promises to reinvigorate the women's tour; in a definitive rout of No. 1--ranked Maria Sharapova in straight sets; after injuries and fashion pursuits had sidelined her for more than a year; in Melbourne. Motivated, she said, by the memory of her murdered older half sister Yetunde--whose name she invoked after every net change--Williams became the lowest-ranked woman to win a Grand Slam singles trophy in 29 years and jumped in the world rankings, from...
...year, he is 4-4 with .912 save percentage. Chu, a member of the US Olympic Team in 2006, also had two goals and an assist over Harvard’s two home wins, a 3-0 win over No. 10 Princeton on Friday, and a 5-0 rout of Quinnipiac one day later. She had a goal and an assist against the Tigers. The captain assisted on sophomore forward Jenny Brine’s second-period goal, the first score of the game, then added her own goal on a four-on-three before the second period ended. Against...
...even more downcast in coming weeks. Yesterday at a press briefing in the Senate Hart office building, American Civil Liberties Union Executive Director Anthony Romero said that while Democrats had not been willing to obstruct Bush's war on terror initiatives before the November elections, he hoped the Democratic rout might have changed the political calculation. "We hope that the Democrats have found their spines again," he said...
...Still, I took consolation this week even as I watched LSU rout Notre Dame in the Sugar Bowl. The TV showed LSU 41, Notre Dame 14, but it flashed another number: the Notre Dame team grade-point average surpasses 3.0, one of the highest in all of Division I college football and at one of the nation's best universities. Notre Dame also graduates 95% of its players while less than half the football team graduates from LSU (a program that Saban left as coach just two years ago). Certainly, some cynics will tell you that the tough academics...