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HANOVER--The Harvard women's basketball team that has won two consecutive games this past week in convincing fashion bears scant resemblance to the team that went 1-10 to start the season before winter break. Although the Crimson's recent start was its worst in years, there was reason to hope that this team could do some soul-searching over break and turn the season around. It had been done before...
Conklin has found his groove again though, touting a scant 0.99 GAA and a near-perfect .965 save percentage in his last five games. Perhaps it is more than coincidence that UNH hasn't lost a game since November...
...scant hours, the polls will close, and the talking heads will have something besides low-pressure centers to hold forth on. Then it'll be time to haul out your galoshes. But it won't be slush you'll be wading through. 6 p.m.: The Spinshine State
...secondary that began the season as one of the worst in the nation continued to show signs of improvement, playing an effective man-to-man scheme to limit the Lions to a scant 64 yards in the air. More importantly, the Crimson was able to keep tailback Johnathan Reese, the Ivy League's leading rusher, in check...
...world affairs. But had the standard of accuracy operating in the first debate been applied in the second, Bush would not have fared as well. For instance, Bush said we should pull our troops out of Haiti, but there are not a lot of troops in Haiti--a scant 34 soldiers by the Pentagon's last count. We don't need to persuade Europe "to put troops on the ground" in Kosovo because almost 85% of the soldiers there now are from Europe. When bombing broke out in Bosnia, Bush did not leap to support it, as he claimed...