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...Crimson. From there, the squad mounted a comeback that featured an ace from freshman Christine Wu and an assortment of kills from the aggressive trio of Flesher, Comrie, and McKinley. At 24-21, the three led a 5-0 run to rob the Lions of the first stanza.“We hit our stride,” Durwood said.It was smooth sailing for the Crimson following the first game. —Staff writer Emmett Kistler can be reached at ekistler@fas.harvard.edu...
...That’s what we define as heartbreaker,” Kocurek said. The teams jostled for the lead throughout the match, constantly exchanging plays and games. Although Harvard could not build an offensive rhythm in the first stanza, it had little trouble slipping into its usual role of battling from behind from there on. “It’s becoming a trend actually,” McKinley said. “We like it when we need [it], but it’s one we definitely don’t want to have...
...Karadzic was an unlikely character to play on the historical stage. A peasant's son who never felt fully at ease in Sarajevo, he was an unsuccessful psychiatrist and a dismal poet. He made his feelings about the city clear, first in verse when he wrote a stanza that read "Let's go down to the cities to kill the scumbags," and later when he decamped to the hills around Sarajevo to oversee the shelling of its civilians. In one typically pompous display, he unveiled to a room of sycophants a Styrofoam mock-up of a "New Sarajevo" that...
Early last year, the bush storyteller Murray Hartin penned a 14-stanza poem in three hours flat. Rain From Nowhere is about a farmer on the brink of ruin who receives an empathetic letter from his father. A celebration of resilience and hope, it is as moving a piece of Australian verse as has been published in decades. It's also pertinent. The driest continent on earth is in the grip of the worst drought in its recorded history. Beginning in 2002 and spanning, at times, the breadth of the country, the dry spell has pushed farmers to the limits...
...Tillman said. “I think after the first five minutes the guys regrouped and really started controlling the game. I felt like coming out of the half we had some momentum.”But the lead would not last long. Despite opening the third stanza with sharp play from tri-captain and goalie Evan O’Donnell—who took over goalkeeping duties from junior starter Joe Pike, who sustained a broken thumb the preceeding week—and a crafty goal from Gibbons, the Big Green would go on to overwhelm the home team...