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Rounding out the weekend with a match against Princeton on Sunday, Gemmell defeated her opponent in a similarly decisive fashion, aiding the Crimson in achieving an emotional win over the Tigers...
...matchup against Yale this weekend, Harvard will fight for sole possession of the Ivy League title, with the national team and individual championships taking place in subsequent weekends...
...when it comes to winter weather may soon be forged through sheer necessity. Another epic blizzard hammered Washington on Wednesday morning, paralyzing anew a city that was still struggling to dig out from a storm that dumped some two feet of snow on the nation's capital over the weekend. The frigid blast, which is expected to blanket Washington's beleaguered residents with another 10 inches or more, left travelers stranded, shuttered airports, snarled rail and road traffic and brought the federal government (yet again) to a standstill. (See pictures of the massive blizzard in Washington...
...gridlock afforded residents of the nation's balmier regions occasion to snicker about D.C.'s reputation for panicking when faced with even the lightest of dustings. But even Obama, a Chicago transplant, acknowledged over the weekend that the city's "Snowmageddon" was formidable. The National Weather Service urged drivers to stay off the roads on Wednesday morning, citing "life-threatening blizzard conditions." Swirling winds of up to 60 m.p.h. were recorded, whipping up near whiteout conditions, with visibility at Dulles International Airport outside Washington about one-tenth of a mile. Thousands of people in the region went without power...
...Wednesday that the city would ask the federal government to foot some of the cleanup costs. The city's Department of Transportation director of communications, Karyn Le Blanc, told TIME that plow crews were on their ninth 12-hour shift clearing snow, a stretch that dates back to the weekend's blizzard. "Mother nature has a very weird sense of humor," she quipped. More snow is expected next week...