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...shouldn't they be? Harvard came into this season having lost its top three scorers, its starting goaltender and a starting midfielder. Unlike past teams, the regular season wasn't an extended warm-up for the NCAA's--first on the Crimson's priority list was getting back into the top half of the Ivy League...
Apparently having used the first game as a warm-up, Southampton started the second match with a 4-0 serving...
...there was another, even darker scenario brewing. "Ross Perot is just waiting to say 'They crushed Steve Forbes, so I guess I have to run as an independent,'" said Kristol. "Forbes may turn out to be the warm-up for Perot, and that is bad news for Republicans." So Forbes has to be handled with care. But so does Buchanan; no one wants a revolt on the right--and a third-party bid on that flank--either...
Another factor could have been the absence of a warm-up the night before the meet, as the team arrived in Princeton fairly late. This warm-up would have been useful for jumpers and sprinters to adjust to the track surface, practice their timing and their rhythm...
...England, and indeed to much of the rowing world, the regatta is unparalleled in grandeur and significance. But to the Harvard and Radcliffe crews, the Head of the Charles often serves as little more than a warm-up exercise for winter training and the spring season...