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...relinquish. “It’s huge to get this win,” said O’Riain. “They’re a good team, and to get our confidence, we really needed this so we wouldn’t go on a slide like last year.” It was an important victory for the Crimson to avoid a three-game losing streak after losses last weekend to No. 8 Northwestern and No. 15 Notre Dame. “They were good teams last weekend,” senior Eva Wang said...
...victory before last weekend shocked the top two teams in the league, sinking buzzer-beaters both times to defeat Princeton 65-64 and Penn 59-57. Although the Tigers and Quakers lost last weekend, their struggles are trivial compared to Harvard’s current three-week slide. “The first two games were buzzer-beaters,” said head coach Frank Sullivan. “But the final three were not, because the defense hasn’t been strong enough or consistent enough.” The concentration on defense is as much a result...
From the opening tip, it was apparent that the Harvard men’s basketball team was still affected by its recent three-game slide, which included buzzer-beater losses to Cornell and Princeton. Brown got six points in the paint in the first four minutes, en route to 43 on the game, as it hopped out to a 10-3 lead. “Brown was able to get too close to the rim all night long,” Harvard coach Frank Sullivan said. Along with interior scoring, the Bears outrebounded the Crimson by five, a dramatic turnaround...
...only political journalists who might be allowed to mourn the passing of Europe's old political style. In the past, Europe's politics were sufficiently technicolor that they threw up leaders who dreamed big dreams: Margaret Thatcher, determined to reverse Britain's long and complacent slide into a grimy irrelevancy; Helmut Kohl, with his passion to reunify Germany; Jacques Delors, bludgeoning the member states of the European Union into taking seriously their promise to forge an ever closer union; Václav Havel, insisting that Europe was a single moral and political space that should never again be divided into...
...company whose superstars have ranged from the Beatles to Coldplay - offered him the top job at EMI Music. EMI was then a listing ship that had jettisoned more than 40% of its market value in one year, and had just issued an entirely unexpected warning, admitting that profits would slide 20%. One of Levy's first hires was a McKinsey & Co. consultant, John Rose, in January 2002, whose remit was to figure out how to make digital pay. "He knew digital wasn't going to go away," Rose recalls. "That was a large part of his hiring me." But Levy...