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...making good on his ranking by taking fourth in the weight class in remarkable fashion. Jantzen earned a fall in his first round bout in only 24 seconds before defeating Cornell’s Adam Frey, 11-7, in a hard-fought quarterfinal match. Jantzen could not land an upset against top-seeded Matthew Kyler, but the rookie did maintain his confidence and fought his way to the third-place match. The freshman forfeited the match midway through, though, in order to rest his nagging injuries before Nationals. While Jantzen and O’Connor will be the only Harvard...
...typical David versus Goliath clash yesterday, Harvard sought an upset of gargantuan proportions against the top-ranked team in the country. Unfortunately, the Crimson received a heavy dose of reality as the Wildcats won their seventh-straight dual match of the season...
...French conservatives did score some significant victories in the initial round of voting: Former Prime Minister Alain Jupp?, for example, won the mayor's job in Bordeaux, just nine months after he suffered a stunning upset for the city's parliamentary seat - a loss that made him ineligible to serve in the national government. Fifteen of the 22 members of Fillon's cabinet of 33 who were on Sunday's municipal ballots either won first-round victories, or were in strong positions for the runoff. Still, the left appears to have done well by trading on the increasing unpopularity...
...Washington housing development, called Quinn's Crossing, was celebrated last summer as part of a "Street of Dreams" promotion that drew tens of thousands of visitors. But it is not exactly a cherished local landmark. Despite its claims of green construction, area activists fought it, fearful that it would upset the delicate environmental balance in an area that contains an important aquifer and streams favored by Chinook salmon...
...Harvard women’s squash team left its mark on the CSA Individual Championships at the Naval Academy with both titles and upsets, and for the second consecutive year returned to Cambridge with some hardware for the trophy case. Sophomore Johanna Snyder, snubbed by the selection committee for placement in the A draw, stormed through the 51-person Holleran Cup, or “B” Bracket as the No. 1 seed to seize the title. “I was a little disappointed not to be in the main draw,” Snyder said...