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After defeating two higher-ranked opponents to set up a showdown of unbeatens with No. 1 Yale, the No. 2 Harvard women’s squash team was unable to scrape up a third upset and fell 5-4 to the Bulldogs at the Barnaby Squash Courts Saturday. With the win, Yale (10-0, 6-0 Ivy) clinched its second-straight Ivy League championship and the No. 1 seed at the Howe Cup national tournament at Princeton next weekend...
...much about Bode (Bo-dee) Miller is conventional. Raised in a mountainside cabin in Franconia, N.H., that lacked electricity and plumbing, he was home-schooled until he was 8 by hippie parents. His father Woody was on the ski patrol and sold energy snacks to scrape by. His mother Jo came from a family of racers. As a young boy he spent nearly every winter day on nearby Cannon Mountain. His mother dropped him off at the base of the hill, and he would find his own ride home. In the summer, tennis gave him agility and soccer a great...
...distinct, not muddied (unscrupulous dealers sometimes soak new carpets in tea or other chemical treatments to make them look older). And make sure the colors haven't run into the carpet fringe - a sure sign of chemical dyes and modern manufacture. Next, get down on your knees and scrape a 4-cm patch of carpet with your fingernails about a dozen times. A small pile of fluff indicates poor-quality wool and a limited life-span. Then briskly rub a section of the rug with the flat of your hand. The palm should come up shiny - lightly greased from...
...Next, get down on your knees and scrape a 4-cm patch of carpet with your fingernails about a dozen times. A small pile of fluff indicates poor-quality wool and a limited life-span. Then briskly rub a section of the rug with the flat of your hand. The palm should come up shiny?lightly greased from the wool's natural lanolin and a good indication of how well the carpet will age. "Do this in front of the shopkeeper," says Tawab, "and he will start bringing out his best pieces...
...latest chapter of a burgeoning rivalry, Harvard and Dartmouth needed two halves and an overtime to scrape out a dramatic result. Unfortunately for the Crimson (8-6, 0-1 Ivy), that meant losing a 73-70 heartbreaker...