Word: stretch
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...bildungsroman, presided over by a Los Angeles-based alt-rocker named Stew. The other, In the Heights, is a Latin- and hip-hop-flavored love letter to the Hispanic neighborhood of Washington Heights in upper Manhattan. The two shows have little in common except that neither could by any stretch of the imagination be mistaken for Phantom of the Opera...
...good wins, needed wins, home wins,” head coach Tommy Amaker said. “[It was a] good weekend for a lot of different reasons, and [I have got] a positive feeling about our kids as we try to finish out this stretch of the season.”A strong finish will not come easily as the Crimson faces some of the Ivy’s stiffest competition in this weekend’s slate. Tonight, Harvard travels to Columbia (13-12. 6-4 Ivy) where it looks to avenge a Feb. 16 loss.In the last...
...Seven preseason losses leading into the Ivy League wasn’t just a bad stretch—it was foreshadowing of that second seven game stretch of misery that brought us back to reality...
...following night at Princeton, a close game down the stretch turned into a blowout as the Tigers outscored Harvard 10-1 in the game’s final minutes...
...villages targeted by Norphel is the Buddhist hamlet of Sakti, tucked in the mountains of the Ladakh Range that stretch above the Indus River. Village head Tsering Kundan recalled the rush of optimism when Norphel's glacier was first built in 2001. People grabbed up more land to cultivate, planting groves of willow and poplar saplings between the fields. But now they're letting their man-made glacier fall into disrepair, says Kundan. Villagers accuse one another of secretly diverting its water, and the local watershed committee is neglecting to spend government funds on maintenance. "They're more interested...