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...There’s already no way to prepare for it—and then the first is Harvard-Yale?”League wins over Cornell, Princeton, and Dartmouth—the Crimson’s first in eight years over the Big Green—highlighted the turnaround season and displayed the young talent that carries Harvard into its 2008 campaign. In its Oct. 20 matchup against the Tigers and eventual Ivy Player of the Year Diana Matheson, the Crimson used a free-kick goal from Nichols just one minute into the match and two tallies from Sheeleigh...

Author: By Emily W. Cunningham, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Makes a Comeback | 6/3/2008 | See Source »

...halftime lead and an eventual 37-6 win.“We were the better team,” head coach Tim Murphy said. “You could see that at halftime.” It was the completion of a 180 degree turnaround from the start of the season that had brought nothing but heartbreak for Harvard.Quarterback Dominic Randolph and the Crusaders shocked the Crimson in the season opener, 31-28, with a 40-yard strike with 19 ticks remaining, just seconds after Harvard linebacker Glenn Dorris dropped what would have been a game-sealing interception. Game three...

Author: By Madeleine I. Shapiro, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Murphy, Crimson Take Ivy Crown | 6/3/2008 | See Source »

...wins over its ECAC opponents. The Crimson posted a 6-1 win over Ivy League foe Yale and recorded its biggest win in 15 years with a 11-0 annihilation of visiting Quinnipiac in the opening game of the ECAC playoffs. Unfortunately, Harvard would see its dream-like turnaround come to a screeching halt in the finals of the ECAC tournament as the Crimson’s hopes of an NCAA automatic bid slipped away with a crushing 4-1 loss to Princeton in the championship game. For the second straight year, Harvard was forced...

Author: By Lucy D. Chen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Tough Ending for Streaky Harvard | 6/3/2008 | See Source »

...None of this, of course, is to take away from the turnaround in Iraq. Last month we saw the fewest American casualties since the invasion in 2003. Basra, Sadr City, and Mosul are coming back under Baghdad's control. Many Iraqis feel safe enough to move back into their houses. And none of it should take away from General Petraeus; our troops, who are bleeding and dying to hold together a country vital to American interests; or the Iraqis, who have backed away from civil war. So why should we now mischaracterize the enemy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Perpetuating the al-Qaeda-Iraq Myth | 6/2/2008 | See Source »

...Mondesire said it is a combination of weariness and hope in the minority community - weariness because they have seen Philadelphia police go unpunished in other high-profile cases dating back to the 1960s, but hope because the new mayor and his new police Commissioner Charles Ramsey, a veteran of turnaround projects at troubled departments, seem to be responding aggressively to the beating. "They jumped on it right away, they didn't hesitate," Mondesire says. "They immediately stepped into the investigation, they immediately took them off street duty, which is different" from the official response to previous brutality cases...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Philly's Cop Beating: No Rodney King | 5/14/2008 | See Source »

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