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...decision to the Lions, ending the Crimson’s streak of 12 straight wins in dual meets. Although it had not lost a dual meet since the 2003-2004 season, Harvard quickly rebounded with a strong showing at the Georgia Invitational and a win over Rutgers. The Crimson swept through the league season, posting strong victories over the likes of Brown and Navy. In the annual meet between the Big Three of the Ivy League—Harvard, Yale, and Princeton—the Crimson unofficially declared its dominance in the league, winning 14 of the 19 races...
...games I will enjoy looking back on.” In the second game of the doubleheader, freshman Bailey Vertovez and sophomore Amanda Watkins allowed only one run each, continuing the stretch of near-perfect Crimson pitching. Princeton, however, was able to notch a 2-0 win. After Cornell swept the team on the first day of Ivy play, Harvard fought back for two victories against Columbia the following day. The Crimson maintained an even record in the Ivy League splitting twinbills with Brown and Yale the following weekend and again with Princeton and Penn the weekend after that. Harvard...
...carrying five men rolled past the Marine convoy. The taxi stopped, and the men inside got out. The Marines, who suspected that the men were spotters for the IED, ordered them to lie on the ground. When they ran instead, the Marines shot and killed them. The unit then swept through four nearby houses, and in the space of the next few hours, killed 19 more people, only one of whom was armed. Among the dead were five women and four children. Could the death of an adored comrade have been enough to turn a few well-trained Marines into...
...Raseef also commends the investigators for the sensitivity to the families' concerns, reassuring them that the enquiries would not be swept under the carpet. ?One of them said to me, 'I have been sent here personally by President Bush to make sure that justice is done,? he says...
Even before the confetti had been swept away Saturday night, the New Orleans mayoral race was starting to look like it had been just an elaborate, expensive distraction from more pressing matters at hand. After months of debates, candidate forums and campaign advertisements, conditions in the hurricane-ravaged city are not much different from when the race began...