Word: xavier
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...Crimson, ranked third in the preseason Ivy League polls, defeated St. Francis Xavier of Nova Scotia in an exhibition game at Lavietes Pavilion, 79-62. A modest--and mostly Canadian--crowd watched Xavier play the Crimson tough in the first half, only to be completely overwhelmed by an effective half-court zone in the second...
With Harvard up by only two three minutes into the second half, Gellert found Harvey at the free-throw line extended. Harvey made the open jumper. He hit a wide open three-pointer on the ensuing possession after Xavier scored at the other...
After the X-Men turned the ball over at the other end, Harvey went to work again. He dribbled into the lane and released a driving eight-footer as he made contact with Xavier's James Maksymiw...
...while, it looked like it wouldn't even get that interesting. The Crimson opened the game with a relentless full-court press that forced Xavier to cough up the ball on each of its first five possessions. Harvard jumped out to an 11-0 lead in the first two minutes...
...close as this one, but which had also been at issue in some famously disputed Florida elections of recent years. In the Miami Beach mayoral race three years ago, incumbent Joe Carollo, a Republican, won 51 percent of the votes cast at polling places. His challenger, ex-mayor Xavier Suarez, who ran as an independent, won 61 percent of the absentees, forcing the contest into a runoff that Suarez won with a large number of absentee ballots. Carollo filed suit, claiming that Suarez forged signatures on absentee ballots.?In March 1998, Judge Thomas S. Wilson Jr. found massive fraud...