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...game in a tie, Abeles crushed a two-out offering from Zitarelli to put the Crimson up by one. The clutch performance came just in time, as the game was called due to heavy rain the very next inning. The one-run margin proved enough to thwart the Big Red on its home field and give Harvard an important conference...
...Friday face-off against league-unbeaten Penn and the sniper Langel will likely be the Crimson's most difficult test to date. Harvard will go to Philadelphia looking to thwart Penn's six-game winning streak...
Wrestling in front of a packed and rowdy house for all three meets, the Crimson went 2-1 for the weekend, sweeping its first two meets, but falling short in its effort to thwart their longtime Quaker rivals. The team cruised by Boston College Friday afternoon by a score of 25-3 before easily dismantling Princeton 37-3 later that night. Yet, the Crimson was unable to carry that momentum into Saturday's meet against Penn as they fell short to their Ivy nemesis...
That may be Microsoft's greatest challenge to date--and exactly what Justice wants to thwart. "For Microsoft to come in and impose proprietary source codes will be very difficult," says Dan Kusnetzky of International Data Corp...
...global scale, such technology has also become renowned for its ability to thwart the inquisitive nature of Big Brother. As a result, the magnitude and multitude of encryption legislation has quickly become a measuring stick for gauging the extent to which countries embrace the concept of free speech on the Internet. If a country allows Web sites originating from servers within its borders to install strong encryption software, its government is much less likely to be able to hack into personal and/or company files to gather evidence of illegal activities or alter the information therein. Though such a scenario might...