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...lightweights’ run was cut short in a regatta against Princeton and Yale on April 25, when the Tigers got the best of the Crimson and handed Harvard its first second-place finish of the season...
...Crimson in a 24-16 hole in the fourth.With a minute left to play, Harvard looked to have seized the momentum. Backup quarterback Liam O’Hagan found junior Matt Luft in the endzone to pull the Crimson within two points of the Bears.But Harvard was stopped short on its two-point conversion attempt, letting Brown walk away with the 24-22 win, its first against the Crimson in nine years. “You always learn more about your team from a loss than any win,” Curtis said. “We had some holes...
Although the Harvard women’s water polo team played only six games at home this season, it is fair to say that those six games were the defining points of the year. Clear-cut victories, comebacks that fell short, strong freshman play and intra-league troubles characteristic of the 2009 campaign all occurred within the confines of Blodgett Pool through the course of six games. The Crimson witnessed a slight decline this season as compared to last year, putting forth a 10-14 record after breaking even at 12-12 in 2008. Despite the slight difference in records...
Maybe the trendy messaging website coaxes contributors into feeling anonymous and uninhibited. Perhaps its short-burst format encourages streams of consciousness that go tragically unedited. Or, possibly, the world is full of more jerks than we care to acknowledge. Whatever the explanation, a shocking number of Twitterers manage to use just 140 characters to come across as massive jackasses. (See the top 10 social-networking apps...
...Berlin. German participants said the U.S. government and GM appeared to be stalling. For weeks, talks have focused on a German government-backed credit for Opel of €1.5 billion ($2.1 billion). But German officials said the U.S. surprised them on Wednesday with a new demand for an additional short-term credit of €300 million ($416 million). The U.S. government also rejected the German government's plan to impose itself as a kind of administrator over Opel's management. After the meeting, the Germans blamed the Americans for the lack of progress. "Once again we were confronted with surprises...