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Despite this setback, Harvard went on 12-2 run to take a commanding lead that the Saints could not overcome. Emmanuel was forced to take a timeout to regroup, but the Crimson remained dominant coming out of the break...
Harvard recovered from the setback in the second game, though, taking the final two sets to capture its third win of the season...
...massive X-braces that made its façade a knockout emblem of architectural force. In 1974 Graham and Khan produced another masterpiece with the Sears Tower (now the Willis Tower). Once the world's tallest building, it drew the severe black box of Mies van der Rohe into the setback forms of older skyscrapers like the Empire State Building. Graham's personal philosophy was as direct as his architecture. Buildings, he once said, should be "clear, free of fashion and simple statements of the truth...
...Representatives of the fishing industry around the world welcomed the news, but for environmentalists, the decision was a blow. "We're totally in shock," says Gemma Parkes, spokeswoman for the World Wildlife Federation. "And obviously very disappointed. This is a real setback for the survival of the bluefin." (See pictures of the tuna trade in Asia...
...minute pleas by such high-ranking U.S. officials as Vice President Joe Biden, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner - the European Parliament voted down the measure on Feb. 11 by a hefty margin of 378-196. After the vote, the Obama Administration called it "a setback for U.S.-E.U. counter-terror cooperation." (See who's who in Barack Obama's White House...