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...Peterzan and Schnitter pulled off an impressive 9-7 win in the No. 1 position. The Crimson, however, collapsed easily in the other two doubles sets. SAN DIEGO STATE 6, HARVARD 1The Aztecs were too much for Harvard. San Diego State snatched the doubles point with a three-set sweep and then went on to win four singles contests in straight sets. In the doubles portion, Sissie Nielson and Eliska Krausova slammed the Crimson’s No. 1 duo of Schnitter and Peterzan, 8-0. At No. 3, Stewart and senior Vilsa Curto—who is also...
...seven previous books, De Bernières uses history to define his central characters. In 1979, the U.K. was mired in economic gloom, and he maps the bleakness of that time directly onto Chris's personality. A hopeless dullard who watches youth movements sweep the world but pass him by, Chris represents the mediocrity of a time and place in which trash lined the streets and protesting cemetery workers refused to bury the dead. "His psychological state is very like everybody's in 1979 when the country seemed to be going nowhere," says De Bernières. "It didn...
Maliki's government targeted Basra because it could. Unlike many other southern cities where fighting has escalated in recent weeks, Maliki has built an independent power base among the security forces there. But Tuesday's sweep of Basra could turn sour in other southern cities where the central government's power is weak. Indeed, many Shi'ites are seeing this not just as an example of the Shi'ite Maliki taking on other Shi'ites (including Sadrists) but of America backing the Prime Minister up in a de facto Shi'a civil war. Iraqi government forces have attacked...
...exception.”When these two teams met in the regular season, Harvard prevailed by a 2-1 score over Cornell on Nov. 16 and again, 3-1, in Ithaca March 1. Still, Harvard coach Ted Donato ’91 knows that the regular season sweep does not justify complacency or reflect the competitive balance between the two teams.“Both teams are vastly improved from the beginning of the season, and I think both teams have year in year out recipes for success,” Donato said. “Both teams are defensively...
...from this season, be proud of what we did, but at the same time, get ready for next year, regroup and really come back strong,” Pusar said. “Obviously we have a couple of big wins in there, we have the Penn and Princeton sweep, and we beat Michigan. We have potential and hopefully we can build on that, tighten up a little bit on some of the holes, and hopefully we’ll come back next year and have a great year.”—Staff writer Kevin C. Reyes...