Word: streaks
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...where you start, it’s where you finish.” Despite getting off to a solid start with wins over Delaware State and Wofford at the season-opening Harvard Invitational, the Crimson women’s volleyball team suffered a crushing six-match conference losing streak, downing any Ivy title aspirations and holding the squad to an 8-18 record. “Although the record doesn’t show it, I feel like it was a very successful season in a lot of ways,” head coach Jen Weiss said...
...large degree of public support, fueled largely by frustration at the government's inability to deal with inflation. Says Ricardo Gomez, a farmer from the central province of Cordoba: "Cristina projected the promise that she could continue to provide the economic bonanza while distancing herself from Kirchner's authoritarian streak, but she turned out to be even tougher than her husband." Her government has called the farmers "oligarchs" who wish to throw her out of office...
Faulks is a graceful writer with a bracing cold streak and a sharp eye for period detail (Bond's girl of the moment drives a white Sunbeam Alpine). But by now, Bond is so bound by convention--there must be exotic settings (Paris, Persia, Russia) and vehicles (the unstoppable Ekranoplan!), and the villain has to have an exotic handicap (a weird, deformed monkey hand)--that it's all poor James can do to wriggle convincingly under all that baggage. And escape, my dear 007, is quite impossible...
...Harvard Men’s tennis team lost 4-2 to Texas Tech on Saturday in the first round of the NCAA team tournament, breaking a seven-game win streak and ending a season in which the Crimson decisively regained its place at the top of the Ivy League.The third-seeded Crimson (No. 51, 15-7, 7-0 Ivy) faced the toughest possible second seed in the tournament in the No. 17 Red Raiders (20-5 at the time, 20-6 after a loss Sunday to No. 16 Michigan) and gave them a run for their money...
...down season, the team used a trying early-season schedule to prepare itself for the tougher play to come, taking on top-ranked teams such as No. 1 Virginia and No. 8 Michigan. Harvard will look to better its 15-6 record and continue its seven-game winning streak that includes two consecutive 7-0 victories to end the season. The Red Raiders won an at-large bid to make it into competition. The postseason is far from new to the Crimson and head coach Dave Fish ’72. Teams coached by Fish have won at least...