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Thanks in part to Chi’s play last week, Harvard has the opportunity to control its own destiny and move up the NCAA tournament bracket. Against Columbia, it looked like the title chance was about to slip through the team’s fingertips with Harvard down a goal late in the second half. But freshman forward Brian Rogers brought the Crimson back and sent the game into an extra period with a goal in the 79th minute. In overtime, the momentum stayed on Harvard’s side, and with fewer than five minutes into the period...
...addition, the Harvard study compiled its figures before the federal government revealed that what may be a crucial component of the vaccine is missing. No one has yet explained what slip-up in the manufacturing process caused the vaccine to be produced without neuraminidase, an enzyme some scientists believe important in triggering a second-line defense to the disease...
...tough to lose in Ivy competition,” Nyamekye said. “The loss against Princeton made our path to the Ivy title a little more difficult, but after each loss, we work a lot harder, so we don’t let a game slip like that again...
Madeleine E. Ballard ’11, who is involved in student health issues on campus, said she couldn’t explain Harvard’s slip in the report, either...
...writes, "His self-regard was almost comical.") He is willing to be graphic, though never gratuitously so, in his descriptions of battle. Maybe the most horrific weapon on the battlefield was the white phosphorus the Allies carried. During the bitter fighting for Hill 112, an English soldier tried to slip through barbed wire under machine-gun fire. A round clipped a phosphorus grenade in his pouch and ignited it. Writhing and burning, he became entangled in the wire and hung there, begging for death, until one of his comrades finally shot him out of compassion. After scenes like this, even...