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...Crimson from duplicating last year’s painful eight-game slide at the end of the season. “Jimmy [Goffredo] and [Darcy], they worked hard with us the whole year, and we did not want to see them go out their last home stand getting swept,” said sophomore point guard Drew Housman, who scored a game-high 20 points. “No one ever felt like we were going to lose, even when we got down 11 in the second half.” Twenty minutes into the game, however, it looked...
...boast as much carnelian red apparel as crimson. “I don’t think there need to be a lot of great pre-game speeches when Cornell is on the menu,” smiled Crimson coach Ted Donato ’91, whose squad swept Colgate and the Big Red in the last weekend before the ECAC tournament. “For a long time, Cornell has been the flagbearer in our league.” The Big Red (14-11-4, 10-8-4 ECAC) entered Cambridge as the No. 16 team in the nation...
...Indonesia's path to a more puritanical form of piety cannot be separated from the global trend toward conservatism that has swept Islam since the 1979 Iranian revolution, which brought Ayatullah Khomeini to power. The movement has only accelerated since Sept. 11, 2001, with the Internet bringing together Muslims worldwide in condemnation of Western actions in the Middle East. "With the hegemony of the West, we have so many problems," says Muhamad Ikhwan, director of Wahdah Islamiyah, which runs a 1,000-student Islamic academy in the eastern city of Makassar, where many girls wear chadors that cover everything...
...Among other Crimson players in the tournament, co-captain Gideon Valkin swept into the third round before losing 6-3, 6-4; freshman Michael Hayes and Junior Gareth Doran were eliminated in the second round; and sophomore Michael Kalfayan lost his opening match...
...Liukko, who had taught tennis for two hours earlier in the morning, took the first set with ease and built a 3-2 lead in the second set when he ran out of steam. Roy took advantage of his fresh legs and swept the final ten games of the match...