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...named to the all-Ivy first team in both his freshman and sophomore years—entered the series hitting over .400 on the season.“Santomauro is the best hitter in our league and has been for the last couple of years.”Meehan struck out Santopadre to end the game.“I like how we battled through and I’m proud of how we came out this weekend after the tough weekend against Brown,” Douglas said.DARTMOUTH 11, HARVARD 5The Big Green knew what...
...song has gone on to become a hit in radios and karaoke bars in Mexico. According to Cuarón, the song choice was improvised. “One day I was driving my kids to school,” he recalled. The song then struck his ear from the car radio. “At the end of the first stanza I was like, ‘This is it!’” he says. “If someone sings ‘I Want You to Want Me,’ they have...
...very disappointed. Why, you might wonder? Because my friend and I went to the same Chicago-area high school, where for the decade we lived in the area we both cheered for the Bulls, the Bears, the Cubs, and other area teams. His switch in allegiances upon moving east struck me as overly convenient, even disloyal. I didn’t say it on the phone then, but I would now—when coming to an out-of-state college, it is crucial to stay true to one’s hometown sporting allegiances, backing the teams that have...
...while walking on Putnam Avenue at approximately 9:25 p.m. Wednesday, according to a community advisory e-mail issued yesterday morning by the Harvard University Police Department. The attack was allegedly part of an attempted armed robbery. According to the advisory, the assailant approached the student from a driveway, struck him in the head, and tried to take his backpack, which contained his laptop computer. Although the student was initially able to run away, the suspect caught up to him at the corner of Flagg Street and Putnam Avenue, according to the advisory. The assailant then revealed a handgun, after...
...ambassador to the U.S., Husain Haqqani, defended the government's concession to the Taliban, denying in an interview with CNN that the cease-fire agreement amounted to capitulation. He justified the action by comparing it to the 2006 U.S.-led Anbar Awakening in Iraq in which U.S. military commanders struck agreements with moderate jihadists. "We are open to criticism of that strategy, but to think that that strategy somehow represents an abdication of our responsibility toward our people and toward the security of our country and the region is incorrect," Haqqani said...