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With three seconds left in the first half of Friday night’s showdown against Cornell, freshman point guard Drew Housman went coast to coast and hit a lay up as time expired. Sandwiched around that play were two halves completely dominated by Cornell, as the Big Red crushed the Harvard men’s basketball team, 71-44, at Lavietes Pavilion, holding the Crimson to its lowest point total of the season. It was Harvard’s eighth straight loss. Cornell (12-15, 7-6 Ivy) blew the game open right at the start. The Big Red?...
...best college players in the nation.” Suchde shut out every opponent, 3-0, on his way to the tournament’s finals and received little resistance from No. 5 Mauricio Sanchez of Princeton in a 3-0 semifinal bout, setting up a showdown with No. 2-seeded El Halaby—one of the best college players of all time. Suchde started out the match in a hole, losing the first game, 9-2, and dropping the second game by shutout. He seized the momentum briefly in the third game, but ultimately fell...
...deceived by the rising rhetoric. There's unlikely to be any kind of showdown any time soon for one overarching reason - there is simply little appetite among the key players in the dispute to escalate matters. The IAEA had already in principle decided, at its previous board meeting in January, to refer Iran to the Security Council, yet Monday's meeting - expected to last up to three days - is still expected to offer Tehran another 30 days in which to cut a deal. Veto-wielding Security Council members Russia and China remain resolutely opposed to sanctions, which conflict with their...
...teams present. The Crimson was placed in a bracket with club teams Columbia and Dartmouth and defeated them by scores of 14-3 and 13-0, respectively. In the semi-finals of the tournament, Harvard, the defending champion, beat Penn 9-6 to set up a title showdown with the Tigers. Despite not being able to repeat as champions, the team still felt confident about its performance. “This is another good starting tournament for us,” captain driver Arin Keyser said. “League play in March and April are when it really counts...
...With a showdown looming in the United Nations Security Council next week over Iran's nuclear program, Iranian chief negotiator Ali Larijani, secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, tells TIME that while Iran has no intention of obtaining nuclear weapons, the country won't suspend its research program as a bargaining step in negotiations with other countries over its nuclear program and that the threat of sanctions will have no influence. In this interview conducted in his Tehran office before Sunday's announcement of an Iranian-Russian agreement on a Russian proposal to establish a joint uranium enrichment...