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...Anderson also rallied against Maria Zivicova, 6-4, 7-6, 1-0 (7), to add another singles win, boosting the Crimson’s final score to 5-2. HARVARD 4, SACRAMENTO STATE 3 In the match against No. 37 Sacramento State (1-2) yesterday, Harvard again swept all three doubles matches. Wang and Schnitter quickly defeated Luba Schifris and Karina Jarlkaganova, 8-1. O’Riain, returning from her injury, and Anderson then secured the doubles point with a win over Margarita Karnaukhova and Anastassia Lyssenko, 9-8 (2). The team of Mukundan and Chu then topped Cecilia...
...HARVARD 6, PENN 3Harvard defeated the Quakers (6-4, 2-2) by a score of 6-3 at the Murr Center on Saturday, with five players winning their matches in three games. At No. 4, De Lierre had the most lopsided victory of all as he swept his opponent with scores of 9-1, 9-3, 9-1. DiSesa managed a close victory at No. 6 against Graham Bassett with a 3-1 win with scores of 9-2, 7-9, 9-4, 10-8. In the fourth and last game, the scores were tied...
...after U.S.-led troops toppled Saddam Hussein's regime in the spring of 2003. Saddam had banned the holiday, which commemorates the battlefield death of Muhammad's grandson Hussein in A.D. 680. But tens of thousands of pilgrims suddenly appeared in the streets of Karbala after the coalition troops swept through, scourging themselves bloody in the traditional attempt to replicate the pain of Hussein's death. In 2004 and 2005, a different sort of pain was imposed, by terrorists-most probably the followers of al-Qaeda in Mesopotamia leader Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi-who launched vicious bombing attacks in Karbala...
...Princeton and Harvard, nipping at Penn’s heels. While it is entirely possible that Penn could be up three games on all three of those teams by Sunday, it will take a more complicated chain of events (specifically Cornell splitting at Brown and Yale, Princeton getting swept by Harvard and Dartmouth, and Penn sweeping the Crimson and Big Green) than last season’s “beat Cornell and it’s all over...
...illustrative purposes, had the Quakers lost to both the Big Red and Lions at home last year, they would have only fallen to second place, just a half-game behind Cornell, while remaining tied with the Big Red in the loss column. This year, if Penn gets swept on Harvard-Dartmouth road trip, the Quakers could fall into a four-way tie for second or a two-way tie for third and could drop a game behind in the loss column...