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...next marquee contest of the season, Harvard met up with Princeton to decide the champion of the Ivy League. Despite taking a 3-0 lead in the contest, the Crimson could not hold on for the victory, as the Tigers stormed back and stole the title away from Harvard. To add injury to insult, Suchde, the Crimson’s No. 1 player, sustained an ankle injury in his match against Princeton’s Mauricio Sanchez, forcing him to retire. Trying to redeem a once-promising season, Harvard, without an Ivy title, vied for the CSA Team Championship...
...average and turned in several gritty outings on just three days’ rest down the stretch. Freshmen starters Max Perlman and Eric Eadington emerged as stars of the future in nailing down the second and third spots in Walsh’s rotation. Perlman nearly stole Haviland’s Pitcher of the Year crown for himself, as he led the team in wins and ERA, picking up a spot on the All-Ivy Second Team. Sure, the defense was there. Junior Jeff Stoeckel, replacing sure-handed shortstop Morgan Brown ’06, committed just four errors...
...According to documents lodged by the Chengde People's Procurate, the government alleged four men flagged down a taxi at the Chengde railway station on the night of the murder. After one asked the driver to stop so that he could relieve himself, all four attacked him with knives, stole about $50, a pager and some keys, and buried the body in a nearby field. With no witnesses to the crime, the prosecution's case relied on the confessions and two pieces of evidence: a knife found in one defendant's home that had blood of the same type...
Nigeria pumped its first barrel in the 1950s and has since set records for corruption. The government's own anticorruption watchdog, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, estimates that between independence in 1960 and 1999, the country's rulers stole $400 billion in oil revenues - equal to all the foreign aid to Africa during the same period. And while a small élite became rich, its members fought one another for the spoils. In 47 years, Nigeria has suffered a civil war that killed a million people, 30 years of military rule and six coups. Meanwhile, two-thirds...
...After all the testimonials, Graham took the stage and stole the show. "I feel like I've been attending my own funeral...