Word: stretch
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...life.Halloween, like college, is a chance to do regrettable things without actually having to regret them.There is no such free pass in Ivy League football.With just seven games of conference play, each Saturday brings a sense of urgency, each win or loss a sense of finality.We approach the home stretch of the season, and the race for first place in the Ancient Eight is tightening to suffocating proportions.So while the rest of us get Sweet n’ Nasty, visit Heaven and Hell, and then return to school not much changed, we should have a little sympathy for Harvard...
...idea for her “space-age cocktail dress” in mind, she heads out with fellow competitor, Vicky D. Sung ’10, to a fabric store in Boston. Winmil Fabrics is a dingy, unassuming store overflowing with fabrics in every color and texture: from stretch cotton to light chiffon, patterned fleeces to psychedelic prints, faux fur to feather boas, oversized buttons, sturdy zippers, and spools of thread. This is square one for fashion design, a place where three dollars will buy you thirty inches of zipper. “Usually, I have an idea before...
...livid on the field and the coaches in the coaching box next to us distressed. Were we going to see a repeat of two years ago where the atrocious officiating cost Harvard the game?Let me qualify this with the fact that I don’t by any stretch of the imagination believe that the Crimson played well before the break. Giving up 118 yards rushing and two touchdowns to a single guy in one half is not exactly what we’d call dominating the competition, but the Tigers were surely helped by a lack of consistency...
...than Harvard had given up to any rusher over the course of an entire game.“When we came out first half, and I thought the line was doing a great job, the holes were the biggest I’ve seen in a while, and the stretch play was working really well, the outside run,” Culbreath said.The ground game kept the Crimson on its toes with a multi-threat attack. In addition to Culbreath, Harvard faced rotating quarterbacks as Brian Anderson—the usual starter, who was also recovering from a shoulder injury?...
...difference between the captives taken for trial in Paris and those handed over in Puntland, says Baptiste, is that French law allow those who have attacked French citizens to be tried, whereas its jurisdiction would not easily stretch to pirates waiting to strike in far-off international waters. And while Baptiste does not say as much, there's reason to believe that the French may have learned enough in the course of interrogating the nine to make it politically dangerous for their warlord masters to set them free. "We know who the pirates are, where they come from, what clan...