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...line,” Powers said. “That’s something we’ve been working on all season, trying to be full-speed at the start so we’re not playing catch-up from the beginning.”OBERG TROPHYAfter a solid Saturday, the Crimson faltered a bit in Sunday’s races to place sixth at the Northeastern-hosted Oberg Trophy.“I would say that the regatta was a lot like the weather—unpredictable,” freshman skipper Teddy Himler said...
...worked on my putting a bit more after the first round, [and] I think it improved slightly in the second round, but it’s still not where I wanted,” Mayer said. “My ball striking was really solid in the second round. [Yesterday] I had a pretty boring round. I made 16 pars and two birdies and I hit 16 greens. It was just hit green, two-putt, move on, with no adventurous shots.” In the field of 11 schools, the average team score was 307 and average player score...
...chance to shake up the Ivy League standings when it took the court against No. 69 Penn (8-7, 3-1 Ivy) and Princeton (10-8, 3-2) this weekend. After opening its league schedule with two victories last week, the Crimson (2-14, 2-2) had solid momentum going into this pair of contests. A win in either match would have put Harvard in striking distance of the league leader. Nevertheless, the Killer Ps crushed the Crimson’s hopes, as Harvard fell 6-1 to the Quakers on Friday and 4-3 to the Tigers on Saturday...
...Unlike his immediate predecessor, Berlusconi can be expected to lead a coalition of solid majorities in both houses of Parliament. Prodi, who beat Berlusconi twice, in 1996 and 2006, spent these last two years in power with a razor-thin margin in the Senate, where his governing coalition finally imploded in January after a failed confidence vote. Veltroni, leader of the newly formed Democratic party, made a point of not aligning with more extreme parties on the left. He is expected to head the opposition, and will try to consolidate power across the center-left spectrum and winnow away more...
...final pitch of yesterday’s doubleheader at Yale, it seemed that, no matter what, the weekend’s results would feel like a victory for the struggling Harvard baseball team.Yesterday, the Crimson (4-25, 3-9 Ivy) continued its breakout offensive weekend and received two solid outings from veteran starters Shawn Haviland and Brad Unger, but a heartbreaking walk-off loss in the weekend finale left it with a sour taste in its mouth—and a split that won’t help it gain ground in the Ivy League standings. Hot Harvard bats paced...