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...shutouts. Two game-winning goals. Two big wins.The Harvard women’s soccer team got it done this weekend.Facing Beantown rival Boston University (2-4-0) on Friday and Wisconsin-Milwaukee (3-3) on Sunday, the Crimson pulled out a sweep, advancing the team’s record to 3-2-1 for the season.And the team has its freshman class to thank for the wins. Paced by two goals from first-year forward Gina Wideroff, the squad followed the Class of 2011 to success on the weekend.HARVARD 1, WISCONSIN-MILWAUKEE 0It was a match of up-and-downs...

Author: By Emily W. Cunningham and Walter E. Howell, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Shutout Defense, Wideroff's Offense Lead to Victories | 9/16/2007 | See Source »

...tough non-conference foes Delaware State, Wofford, and Michigan State at Lavietes Pavilion.“This tournament this weekend really proved to us how good of a team we are and how far we can take it in the Ivy League,” senior Laura Mahon said.After sweeping the Hornets, 3-0, on Friday, the Crimson lost only one game to the Terriers en route to a 3-1 match victory. In the final match against the Spartans, Harvard fell short, losing the match 3-1.With its win over the Crimson, Michigan State claimed the Harvard Invitational title, having...

Author: By Dixon McPhillips, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Women's Volleyball Finishes Second at Harvard Invitational | 9/9/2007 | See Source »

...Laden should know by now that if he does manage a terrorist attack, the only thing he should count on is a hardening of America and its allies' positions. Especially in Europe: An attack there, such as the foiled plot in Germany, would sweep away European unhappiness about secret prisons and Guantanamo, once again lining Europe behind the U.S. in its war against al-Qaeda...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bin Laden Fights to Stay Relevant | 9/7/2007 | See Source »

...government planning to sweep Manuel Noriega out of the country in the dead of night? The ex-dictator of Panama's defense attorneys on Wednesday morning filed an emergency motion to stay his extradition to France, citing plans to move the prisoner three days ahead of his scheduled release date. The general, who has Prisoner of War Status since the U.S. invasion of his country in late 1989, has been fighting the move, fearful that he will be tried as a common criminal by the French government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fast-Tracking Noriega's Exit? | 9/5/2007 | See Source »

...Tory policy as "pants.") Yet a change of style might compromise his disarming ability to disguise his intellectual firepower and connect with people, a rare gift shared with his mentor Tony Blair. Appointed Blair's head of policy in 1994 and an author of the election manifesto that helped sweep Labour to power three years later, Miliband is already a Labour eminence, if not yet a gray one. After winning a parliamentary seat in 2001, he was rapidly promoted by Blair, who once compared his precocious protégé to Wayne Rooney. The lanky, bookish Cabinet Minister...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Outward Bound | 8/2/2007 | See Source »

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