Word: twinning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Crimson split a twin bill with Princeton, dropping the opener 1-0 before taking the night-cap, 10-1. Being shut out by a squad that it lit up for 10 runs just hours later would come back to haunt Harvard...
...twin brothers are standing on a railway platform in Hengyang, saying what they think is their final farewell. It is a spring morning in 1949, and they are surrounded by refugees and wounded soldiers. China's civil war is reaching its climax. The 16-year-olds have received a letter that is to change their destinies forever. It is a message from their father Yang Deyuan: "You two take different roads, so no matter which side is going to win or lose, I will have a river on my left and on my right...
With China's future in the balance, Yang, a wealthy landowner with three wives, is breaking up his family. Yang Peiyuan, the older twin by half an hour, is to return to their hometown and join the communists. Yang Peiji, the younger twin, is to go south to join the Kuomintang (KMT) and fight in their Nationalist army. The train is about to leave. Peiji tells his brother to try to persuade their father to escape to Hong Kong. They hug, and Peiyuan boards the train...
...Harvard backfield has been stellar. Last Saturday against Yale, sophomore Hilary Walton led a stifling defense, blanking her twin sister Amanda, who leads the Ivy in scoring with 10 goals. And Cowan allows just 1.64 goals per game and boasts a .857 save percentage, which is tops among all Ivy keepers...
...sibling rivalry department, Harvard sophomore Hilary Walton led a stifling Crimson backfield by blanking her twin sister Amanda, who leads the Ivy in scoring with 20 points on 10 goals...