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...heavyweight varsity eight narrowly edged a tenacious Brown crew on April 11 to take the Stein Cup. The heavies then proceeded to sweep their next three regattas, coming in first in all of its dual races...
...stormed back to edge the Big Red, 6-5, in the nightcap to snap Cornell’s 15-game winning streak. Harvard then split a pair with defending league champion Princeton the next day.The Crimson faltered in its Ivy North opener, getting swept by Yale, but responded by sweeping the Bulldogs two days later and picking up three crucial division wins against Brown. “It’s been said that we always kind of come through at the end, so I think this team does show a lot of heart,” freshman pitcher Rachel...
...league record and giving itself an outside chance to catch Rolfe Division-leading Dartmouth and earn a spot in the Ivy League Championship Series. Unfortunately for the Crimson, its offense hit a cold spell at the worst possible time, and the team suffered a sweep by Brown in a four-game series that knocked Harvard out of Rolfe contention.“That was a real shot to the gut,” Stack-Babich said. “That made the next weekend not worth anything, which is always hard. It was pretty embarrassing.”Still...
...their minds. They aren't going to get any help from the state's supreme court, never mind that Chief Justice Ronald George's historic opinion last May ruled that any discrimination against gays is no less outrageous - and illegal - than discrimination based on race or religion. Despite the sweep of that ruling, George and five other justices ruled on Tuesday that there is nothing so special about gay-marriage rights that make them exempt from the state's famously disruptive and pliable constitutional-amendment process...
...that last month's release of the so-called torture memos would shed some light on the dark practices; the ensuing uproar, from both sides of the political divide, has only made things murkier. For many, the controversies make the case for an independent inquiry: what better way to sweep aside the politics and get to the facts? (Read about the Pentagon's role in torture tactics...