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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...
...Crimson (7-0, 5-0 Ivy) definitely wasn’t supposed to be undefeated heading into a showdown with defending national and Ivy champion No. 1 Yale...
...victory, combined with a 8-1 win over No. 5 Penn Saturday, sets up a showdown of undefeateds with No. 1 Yale this Friday. The Bulldogs are the only thing standing between the Crimson and an Ivy title, as well as top seeding at the Howe Cup the following week...
...nuclear weapons. Among Khan's customers were Iran and North Korea--two countries identified by Bush as members of the "axis of evil," whose nuclear ambitions present the U.S. with two of its biggest foreign policy quandaries. At a moment when the international community is focused on a potential showdown with Iran, a TIME investigation has revealed that Khan's network played a bigger role in helping Tehran and Pyongyang than had been previously disclosed. U.S. intelligence officials believe Khan sold North Korea much of the material needed to build a bomb, including high-speed centrifuges used to enrich uranium...
Undefeated through six conference games, the Dutchmen—under coach Nate Leaman’s tutelage—not only mirrored Vermont’s meteoric climb from the league’s basement, but they appeared poised to maintain their position as well. The Harvard-Union showdown on Dec. 3 at Bright Hockey Center, in fact, was billed as a genuine test for the Crimson, one which the home side could no longer count on emerging from with...