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Instead of serving as a high point, the team’s 77-66 loss to the Bulldogs—Harvard’s fifth straight loss and fourth in a row at home—marked the nadir of its season...
...Harvard men’s basketball team was powerless to pull out of its freefall on Friday night, losing to Brown 79-66 at Lavietes Pavilion. The Crimson dropped its fourth straight league game, including the third in a row at home, to fall to 12-10 overall and 4-5 in the Ivies. “We played in a funk,” captain Matt Stehle said. “It was like we had all just woken up from a long sleep.” Just as in last week’s losses to Princeton...
...nearly carried out on an 11-year-old witness; the two cut-rate attackers, paid just $50 each to rough up a witness before trial, who proved so inept that one of them collapsed and died after the witness gained the upper hand and started beating them up; the row of thugs who lined the marble steps of the courthouse so they could stare down witnesses and jurors entering a trial; the hoodlums who sent a sequestered witness text messages from their cell phone; the jurors in a case who, one by one, refused to read a guilty verdict aloud...
...then they have been assigned to serve more than 300 summonses and body attachments (special incarceration warrants for witnesses who don't want to be found). It can be a maddening chase at times. Wearing baggy street clothes with Kevlar vests underneath, the two troll the city's grim row houses looking for witnesses who are, as often as not, "in the game" themselves, part of the same shadowy and dangerous criminal class as the defendants. Even thugs are often afraid of what will happen if they are forced to testify, so Bowden and Conaway try to handle all their...
...days later, on Saturday night at Lavietes Pavilion, there would be no reenactment of that streak-snapping victory. Instead of serving as a high point, the team’s 77-66 loss to the Bulldogs—Harvard’s fifth straight loss and fourth in a row at home—marked the nadir of its season. While Yale coach James Jones and his players hung around the court after the game, soaking in their first win at Lavietes in three years and first road victory of the league season, the dejected members of the Crimson remained...