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Harvard (2-12-1, 0-3 Ivy) fought against tough opponents but lost in lopsided bouts to Brown in Providence, R.I. on Saturday and Lehigh at the MAC on Sunday. The Crimson fell in similar fashion both days, losing to the Bears, 33-12, before falling to the Mountain Hawks...
...Crimson suffered a tough loss to the No. 7 Mountain Hawks (14-3-1, 3-0-1 EIWA) on Sunday. In its final home match of the season, Harvard started off strong, but could not carry the momentum through all the matchups...
Tapping into the economic grievances of average Iranians may be the next phase of the Green Movement, which has so far been strongest among Iran's urban middle classes. As the regime struggles with a mountain of government debt, unemployment and social subsidies, opposition organizers are sensing an opportunity to expand their base socially and geographically beyond the main cities. On Monday, Feb. 15, the head of the Iranian electricity-workers union said that more than 900,000 of its members are about to lose their jobs and that the country could face an electricity crisis and blackouts because...
...addition to erecting new protective walls on the final curve, Olympic organizers moved the men's start down the mountain, to the area where the women's luge athletes were scheduled to start their race. The near vertical drop at the beginning of the luge runs helped sliders build the excessive speed; eliminating some 600 feet (183 m) from the 4,600-ft. (1,402 m) track kept most runs below 90 m.p.h. (145 km/h). Loch hit 91.6 m.p.h. (147 km/h) on a Saturday heat, the top speed in the competition. Under the new setup, no luge athlete was injured...
...event because it gave such an advantage to the German racers. The strong, well-schooled German athletes are particularly strong starters, and on a shorter course, the weaker starters, who excel at negotiating the curves, don't have enough time to pick up speed at the bottom of the mountain. "God blessed the Germans today," says Ruben Gonzalez of Argentina, who came in last. "Once I saw the wall up, I though we were fine. They didn't have to move the start. At the next World Cup they have here, you watch, they will be starting from...