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...almost twelve seconds. The problems continued the following week in the O’Leary Cup with Dartmouth, as the Big Green beat the Black and White’s first varsity by six tenths of a second on the Connnecticut River. In New Haven Radcliffe could not snap the skid against rival Yale in its next regatta, the Chase Cup. The Bulldogs won every race, except for the novice eight. The Black and White followed up that loss with a stunning setback on the Charles to the Terriers in the race for the Allen-DeWolfe Trophy. Boston University...
...Harvard lost by 13 the next night against Penn, then dropped the next two to Brown and Yale, effectively ending any chance to climb back into the league title picture. Three more defeats followed, capped by a blowout at the hands of Cornell, before Harvard beat Columbia to snap the streak and salvage Senior Night. The Crimson’s late-season collapse mirrored the 2002-03 season’s disappointing finish, when Harvard—bearing similarly high expectations for a senior-laden squad—compiled an identical 8-5 mark in non-conference play. That team...
...didn’t have the college experience [we needed to succeed], but the level of play was there.” The two stories of the season for the Crimson involved two broken streaks. The first—more of a lowlight—involved Cornell, which snapped a 45-year losing streak against Harvard by winning five of six singles matches and delivering the Crimson its first Ivy loss of the season, a loss that sophomore Ashwin Kumar called “the worst singles performance we had all season.” After losing to Columbia...
What is impossible to know is whether the same lengthy experience that made the Marines more attuned to the challenges of fighting in Iraq also made them more prone to snap if provoked. As TIME reported in March, a 13-man Kilo unit was on patrol in a residential part of Haditha on Nov. 19 when its convoy of four humvees was attacked by an IED. The explosion killed Miguel Terrazas, 20, a beloved member of the unit, who was driving the fourth humvee. Terrazas had a record of being cool under fire. His brother Martin reports that Terrazas once...
...Kelly's premise with conviction, he had no intention of celebrating it: rather digitization, he told the audience, was a "grisly" scenario, one that would lead to readers treating books like music, downloading and cutting them into playlist-like "snippets." The word "snippets" was delivered with an East Coast snap - teeth into an October apple - for maximum onomatopoetic effect...