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Harvard’s second team was swept by Yale’s first team in the first round, but then marched through the consolation bracket by defeating the Maccabeah team, the U.S. Under-19 team and then Yale’s second team. The last victroy came in five games...
...Crimson teams found greater success in the consolation bracket, however, as Harvard’s second team won the eight-team bracket of first-round losers. Harvard’s first team swept Trinity’s second team and Yale’s first team en route to winning the consolation bracket of quarterfinal losers...
...Americans and we will fight them." It had no effect. "Our troops had orders to attack," he says. His soldiers, most of whom had spent the past five years living in Pakistani refugee camps and had never fought before, first occupied the ridges above the caves and swept down the hills. The defenders withdrew quickly. One fighter with a yellow flower in his hat said his friend had killed two as they fled up the mountain...
Watching the harvard-radcliffe dramatic Club’s production of The Who’s Tommy feels much like standing front and center at a high-energy rock concert. An intense buzz of electricity runs through this production; from beginning to end, the audience is swept up by the quintessential rock opera, which extols the themes of freedom and individuality...
Dingdingdingdingding! The rally that has swept Wall Street since Sept. 11 - or least since Sept. 21, which is plenty remarkable enough - reached a pair of very nineties technical milestones Wednesday, with the Dow passing 10,000 and the NASDAQ cracking...