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...very next night in a 27-point throttling at the hands of Princeton. To keep itself afloat in the Ivies this year, the Crimson will have to prove that it can hang with the big dogs of the Ancient Eight. Doing so would reverse a long running trend that has seen Harvard drop its last nine contests to Penn and thirteen of its last fourteen games to the Tigers.“The mental toughness aspect is very huge, especially in the Ivy League, where it’s short bursts of Friday-Saturday [games] and then five days...
...year.” Harvard is hoping that improvement will come from a return to its old guard-oriented blueprint. Sullivan has brought his squad back to the league mean in response to last year’s failure, attempting to find success by catering to the dominant Ivy trend. He recruited four guards, all 6’4 or shorter, and just two frontcourt players, neither taller than 6’7, swinging the balance back to the perimeter for the foreseeable future. The nucleus of this year’s team has also been transferred from the frontcourt...
...declined from 179,954 to just 67,773, according to the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate at Georgetown University. The average age of nuns today is 69. But over the past decade or so, expressing their religious beliefs openly has become hip for many young people, a trend intensified among Catholic women by the charismatic appeal of Pope John Paul II's youth rallies and his interpretation of modern feminism as a way for women to express Christian values...
...only member of her Sisters of St. Francis of the Immaculate Conception in Peoria, Ill., to do so. (The others wear a simple dark dress adorned by a pin.) Though she admits "people just stare at you like you're a freak," she adds, "It's a trend with younger women wanting to wear the veil...
...layup with 31 seconds left that gave Harvard a five-point cushion. The Crimson, which was out-rebounded 42-29, won the game at the free-throw line. Harvard was 28-of-37 from the stripe versus Maine’s 10-15 performance, a continuation of a trend from last year, when Harvard shot over 150 more free throws than its opponents and capitalized at an Ivy second-best .745 percentage. The combination of Cusworth and Harris’s work down low and the drives of Housman and Goffredo forced Maine’s big men into critical...