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...stage is set.With its 23-7 victory over Penn at home on Saturday, the Harvard football team continued its undefeated run through the Ivy League following an uninspiring 1-2 start to the season and ensured that sole possession of the Ancient Eight title will be on the line in the Crimson’s upcoming battle against Yale in New Haven.Harvard (7-2, 6-0 Ivy) used its formidable defensive attack while putting together a few key scoring drives to beat the Quakers (3-6, 2-4 Ivy) in front of a crowd of 10,116 on Senior Day.The...
...second year in a row, the Harvard women’s soccer team has had to watch another group of players celebrate an Ivy League championship on Ohiri Field. Penn (13-3-1, 6-1-0 Ivy) clinched sole possession of the league title Saturday by downing the Crimson, 1-0. A 15th-minute goal from Penn’s Jessica Fuccello—her 11th goal of the season—coupled with an impressive defensive display was enough to defeat Harvard in a match of very few chances. A year ago, it was Columbia that clinched...
...Bulldogs took first place. Neither boat stood out in the 18-team field, but it was the Crimson’s B-division duo that fared best, also taking ninth place. Junior Roberta Steele and sophomore Liz Powers shared time at skipper for the division, while Brants was in sole charge of crew duties during the nine races. “The forecast was for really cold weather and really high breeze, but it wasn’t quite so bad,” Brants said. “There was a high-velocity breeze on Saturday, and on Sunday...
...excited when Australia's bizarre flora and fauna began arriving in London in the 1780s. The stunning variety, wrote a contemporary, "bursts upon our view at the first glance like a new creation." When Macleay agreed to go out to New South Wales as colonial secretary in 1826, his sole consolation for being sent to that era's equivalent of the moon was that he'd find it easier there to feed the addiction that threatened to ruin him: collecting insects from the antipodes. In an exquisite introductory essay, Ashley Hay tells how Alexander's son William and nephew William...
...sole promise of membership has brought progress to countries previously doomed to Soviet spheres of influence. Leaders in countries like Poland and Slovakia were able to justify necessary but often-painful state reforms with the promise of a brighter, more prosperous future within Europe. Almost all succeeded. Borders moved east; in its largest round of expansion in 2004, the EU acquired 10 new members. Adam Michnik, the famous chief editor of Poland’s Gazeta Wyborcza, celebrated in 2002 the confirmation of his country’s accession: “…the dream of several generations...