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Looking to regain its rhythm in league play, the Harvard men’s volleyball team managed only a split this weekend on the road, defeating New Haven on Friday before falling to New Jersey Tech (NJIT) on Saturday.The two contests left the Crimson (3-8, 2-2 Hay) in the middle of the pack in the league standings—a position unpredicted by the preseason poll that picked Harvard to win the division.“We’ve already dropped two league games,” co-captain John Freese said...
...It’s that extra 10 seconds [of the shot clock] that hurts us, and against Penn and Princeton, they come at you the whole time.” Tigers’ guard Scott Greenman personifies that effort. Last weekend, Greenman single-handedly assured Princeton a split of its two road games with his beyond-clutch performance against Cornell on Friday. Greenman buried a three-pointer to send the game to overtime and then nailed a last-second three in overtime to force a second extra frame. His 27-point effort propelled the Tigers to a crucial...
...important it is, and the fact that if we win and we sweep, then we get the bye. “And the bye is crucial,” he added, “especially coming off a weekend like this.” Reese was referring to a split in New York: a 4-1 loss to Colgate and then a 4-3 thriller over Cornell in front of a packed and raucous Lynah Rink crowd. The win clinched the Crimson’s first Ivy title since 2000, but it came at a price: defenseman Brian McCafferty, forward...
...divide between Sunni and Shiite Arabs is currently Iraq's most volatile. The distinction between the Sunni and Shiite branches of Islam dates back to a 7th Century split over who would inherit the leadership of Muslims after the passing of the Prophet Muhammad. The Shiites believe that the Prophet had passed the mantle of leadership to his own descendants, first to his cousin and son-in-law, Imam Ali, who in turn passed it to his own son (and the Prophet's beloved grandson) Imam Hussein. They rejected the three Caliphs chosen by consultation among the Prophet's followers...
...that Reeves had delegated committee chairmanships without following official Council rules.Winters calls this oversight a “fundamental misstep.”Winters also dismisses that racism or homophobia propelled the accusations against Reeves from his previous term. He says that Reeves made several political enemies after his split with the Cambridge Civic Alliance, a progressive political organization that no longer exists.“He’s got a big sign on his back that says ‘kick me, please’...he’s a good man who unfortunately invites controversy...