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...Grigg, junior Jennifer Blumberg, junior Suipriya Balsekar, senior Audrey Duboc, senior Lydia Williams, freshman Sandra Mumanachit, and freshman Charlene Neo all swept their matches 3-0. Freshman Katherine O’Donnell lost a single game before winning on a drop shot. However, the going will soon be much tougher. In an eight-day stretch in February, the Crimson will face Penn, Princeton, and Yale—a threesome expected to contend with Harvard for the Ivy League title. In addition, the Crimson will face the Trinity, a perennial contender for the national championship. Preseason rankings placed all four...
...landscape that is Washington, there's a new contender for the title of Scariest Guy in Town. He stands 5 ft. 5, speaks softly and has all the panache of your parents' dentist. But when it comes to putting powerful people on the hot seat, there's no one tougher and more tenacious than veteran California Congressman Henry Waxman. In the Democrats' wilderness years, Waxman fashioned himself as his party's chief inquisitor. Working with one of the most highly regarded staffs on Capitol Hill, he has spent the past eight years churning out some 2,000 headline-grabbing reports...
...tough is its fight in Afghanistan? Tougher than most thought it would be when NATO first deployed forces in August 2003 to help the nascent Afghan government maintain security. "If we fail in Afghanistan it could be the end of the alliance," says Ronald D. Asmus, director of the Transatlantic Center of the German Marshall Fund of the United States, a security think tank in Brussels. "It would be like losing the Korean War at the beginning of the cold war." There's not a single NATO member state who would argue otherwise, yet the trend line is not encouraging...
...well as the rest of Harvard, hopes that she will continue to find the holes no matter who she plays with, as the Crimson enters the tougher part of its season...
...first half of the season,” Bajwa added. “But in terms of finding out how we’re going to do [this season], we’ll find that out in February.” HARVARD 9, WILLIAMS 0 The Crimson faced a tougher opponent in Williams yesterday, which required gritty performances from its top players. “Today was definitely harder, for sure,” senior Siddharth Suchde said. “I was trying to work a few new things into my game like my coaches told me to, played...