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...team celebrated a homecoming by trashing the Eagles of Boston College, 8-1. In the first match played at Harvard's Palmer-Dixon courts since the beginning of November, the Crimson (11-3) assured themselves of victory by winning 5 out of the 6 singles matches, and completed the rout with exciting dominant doubles play...
...massacre to pull back the reforms--or at least slow their pace. And as Deng retreated into a self-critical silence, they seemed to succeed. But Deng, though increasingly frail, fought back. In February 1992, sensing that the populace was exasperated by conservative austerities, he emerged from seclusion to rout his opponents. His stratagem: leading high officials on a tour of Shenzhen and Zhuhai, his prosperous economic enclaves. Nearly deaf by now, he urged Chinese to "seize the opportunity" of such go-go, free-market examples. The result was an explosion of economic growth and the elevation of "Deng Xiaoping...
...only broke the record, but recorded nine more in the Crimson's rout of the Tigers...
Hazing itself, which many view as an integral part of the military tradition of breaking down a young Marine in order to build him back up, will be far harder to rout. Fifty-two Marines have been court-martialed, and at least 34 have received nonjudicial punishments for hazing since 1994; every other branch of the military--and many military-training schools--has disciplined personnel for hazing. As Shalikashvili put it last week, "We are always going to try to fix human behavior, but we are not always going to have 100% success." But if the leadership does...
Okay, it wasn't a rout. But at that point, Harvard owned the game...