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...weekend was among Harvard’s players, as the individual results were at stake even on the 18th green. “I had a possible birdie on the 18th hole that would have given me a chance of winning [the medal],” said Shore, who wound up one shot behind individual winner Steve Velardi of Quinnipiac. “It was pretty exciting,” Singh added. “Greg made a 20-foot putt on the last hole to make a birdie and tie with Mike.” In addition...
Self-taught in swordsmanship, hand-to-hand combat and making bombs from clay pots, gunpowder and tar, Smith fought as a young mercenary in wars across France, the Netherlands and southeast Europe to the edge of the Ottoman Empire. Captured and sold into slavery, he wound up at a remote Black Sea military outpost, where a Turkish officer shaved Smith's head and riveted an iron ring around his neck. "A dog could hardly have lived to endure" the routine beatings and starvation rations that followed, Smith wrote in his colorful and epic autobiography...
...regulations may infringe on the ability of colleges to educate their students. Besides, with so many colleges and universities using different loan schemes and such strong incentives to find new ways to send business to a particular lender, federal legislation would only provide a temporary bandage to a growing wound. Thankfully, Harvard has not been mired in this controversy; the College does not even have a preferred lender. But as students at a university where all is well, we should not ignore the plight of students being swindled across the country...
...That’s a testament to the bottom of the lineup too, getting on so—me being in the leadoff spot—I have a chance to drive in runs.” Haviland, who was in line to register his third straight Ivy win, wound up with a no-decision after allowing four runs on eight hits in seven innings.Brown did most of its damage against him in the third inning. Rifkin blasted his first career longball, and senior catcher Devin Thomas followed with a two-out solo drive—both into the right...
...police who came. It was Cho, back for another round, reloading his gun and firing another shot into the dead and wounded. He thinks he heard Cho reload three times, and at every shot he braced himself, thinking, "This one is for me." His mind wandered; he wondered what a gunshot wound feels like, how much it would hurt. He wondered if he would die slow or fast, and then he thought of his family. "I was terrified that my parents weren't going to be able to go on after I was gone." There was a student in front...