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...marked improvement over last year’s results. But when the season culiminated with the Ivy League Championships the last weekend of April, Harvard had to be disappointed. After finishing fourth in last year’s league championship, the squad slipped two spots to sixth this year.“I think we accomplished a lot,” captain Michael Shore said. “We had two wins, which is pretty huge. Unfortunately, Ivies...to say it was a disappointment is an understatement.”But all told, the team has high hopes for next...

Author: By Dixon McPhillips, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: SEASON RECAP: Harvard Comes Up Short at Ivies | 5/30/2009 | See Source »

...could win at least one of them at home [on Sunday],” Brown said. “We played our hearts out on Saturday, and we were behind in both games. Coming from behind on Saturday in both games was really exciting.” Harvard staged sixth-inning comebacks in both contests to sweep the afternoon, 7-3 and 6-3.But the bats ran out of steam on Sunday, as the Big Green got the better of the Crimson in two low-scoring games. “It was a very emotional day on Sunday—last...

Author: By Lucy D. Chen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: SEASON RECAP: Crimson Stretches Season to Final Weekend Bout | 5/30/2009 | See Source »

...water polo team showed marked improvement through the 2008 season, but the Crimson could not manage to demonstrate its growth in the win column. The young squad struggled often in its fall campaign, amassing a 5-12 (3-5 ECAC) record before ending the season with a sixth-place finish at the Northern Division Championships at MIT in November. “We’re definitely not satisfied with the outcome this past season,” junior Egan Atkinson said, referring to the regression in the team’s record following a 14-16 effort...

Author: By Max N. Brondfield, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: SEASON RECAP: Harvard Struggles in Division Play | 5/30/2009 | See Source »

...Would be the sixth Catholic on the Supreme Court...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sonia Sotomayor: Obama's Supreme Court Nominee | 5/27/2009 | See Source »

...year-old investment bank collapsed, we didn't yet know how common it would be for a financial firm to be brought to its knees over a panicked long weekend. The Wall Street Journal's Kate Kelly takes us inside Bear's last, dizzying days: the lawyers swarming the sixth floor, the pleading phone calls to investors for emergency billions, the sickening realization that a lifesaving loan from the Federal Reserve would last two days--not 28. Kelly flicks at Bear Stearns' backstory--how its eat-what-you-kill culture and deep dive into mortgage securities sowed the seeds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Skimmer | 5/25/2009 | See Source »

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