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Once upon a time, outbreaks of disease and environmental catastrophe could be swept under the rug. Man-made famines in Russia in the 1930s and China two decades later were scarcely known outside their borders. But more recently the world has become too interconnected for deception of that magnitude. In 1986, when a nuclear reactor exploded at Chernobyl, in Ukraine, the Soviet government initially tried to keep it quiet. But when Geiger counters in Scandinavia went haywire, Moscow had to come clean. This year the truth about SARS emerged after citizens infected in China traveled outside the country--and after...
Harvard faces a familiar first round foe in Big 12 champion Oklahoma State (17-6). The Crimson swept the Cowgirls 7-0 at the Murr Center on March 19. Harvard won convincingly despite the absence of its No. 1 singles player, sophomore Courtney Bergman...
Dartmouth swept Yale yesterday to keep pace atop the division, just one game behind the Crimson. Harvard and the Big Green will play two games at Dartmouth on Saturday and two at O’Donnell Field Sunday at noon to end the regular season. The series will likely decide the Red Rolfe Division winner...
...Crimson (14-24, 6-6 Ivy) swept an epic Sunday doubleheader at Princeton (20-16-1, 10-3). Both games went deep into extra innings, and both games concluded with a Harvard...
...Crimson’s sweep of the Tigers was all the more remarkable considering Harvard was swept by Ivy cellar-dwelling Penn (10-27-1, 3-11) on Saturday. In the same weekend, Harvard achieved the rare feat of tripling the loss total of the Ivy’s first-place team after tripling the win total of the Ivy’s last-place team—Penn went from one league win to three, Princeton from one loss to three...