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...those of you who remain unconvinced—those of you that will consider this season a success if Harvard can just sweep Columbia—I’ll be waiting to see the expression on your face when this team far exceeds your lowly expectations.” (11/19/2003...
...That growing gap between Afghanistan's haves and have-nots helps explain why a U.S. military convoy accident triggered riots that engulfed Kabul on Monday, leaving at least 14 people dead, over 100 injured and millions of dollars of damage. It was the worst violence to sweep the Afghan capital since the 2001 overthrow of the Taliban, and in the process, it shattered the illusion that the city would remain untouched by the growing unrest in the south and east - as well as the notion that the Taliban or its sympathizers were the only violent threat to the Western presence...
...Harvard appearance on the winner’s dock.The Cornell varsity eights turned a historically close race into a one-sided affair, blitzing the field in both the first and second varsity lightweight final races to claim the Big Red’s first one-two Sprints sweep since 1964.Harvard was left out of the mix with two fourth place finishes in the varsity races. The Crimson trailed early and rallied late, only to be kept out of the medals by less than a second in both varsity races. “I’ve made a career...
...expect anything,” said second varsity coxswain Amanda Caplan. “I think that despite Harvard’s wild success in the last three years, our crews have not ever gone into Sprints thinking ‘We’re going to sweep.’ We always go in with the sense that we have to do our best and nothing short of that will do.”—Staff writer Aidan E. Tait can be reached at atait@fas.harvard.edu...
Baseball season turned into awards season for Harvard yesterday. The Crimson, whose spring came to an abrupt end with a two-game Ivy League Championship sweep by Princeton on Saturday, had five players selected to the All-Ivy First Team—four more than the Tigers and one more than any other team in the league. The eight Ivy League coaches who voted on the awards also named Harvard sophomore Shawn Haviland Ivy League Pitcher of the Year. Freshman Adam Cole, No. 2 in the Crimson rotation this year behind Haviland, was honored as one of the league?...