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Harvard last played Northeastern in the Beanpot consolation game last year, a wild back-and-forth affair characterized by sloppy defense that Harvard lost, 8-7. Coming off a weekend trip in which it allowed 11 goals in two games, Harvard was looking for a strong defensive effort in last night’s game. However, the Crimson was hurt by a soft second goal off the stick of Ryan Dudgeon and burned three times on special teams, a Northeastern strength...
...unsuccessful attempts, the state was finally able to convict Navy captain and military journalist Grigory Pasko on treason charges. Pasko had leaked information to the press about nuclear-waste dumping in the Russian far east. Putin denied any involvement in the case: it was, he said, a "purely juridical affair" and invited Pasko to request a pardon. This was easier said than done, as a few days after the Pasko verdict the President abolished his pardons commission, founded by Mikhail Gorbachev and composed of unreconstructed civil libertarians hopelessly out of touch with the Putin...
Though this could be explained partly by the national broadcast of the game, the Harvard-Brown game has always historically been a high-scoring, exciting affair...
...close loss suggests that the Howe Cup final, the women’s squash national championship, will be a very tightly contested affair between these two schools at Princeton in early March...
HARTFORD, Conn.—One of the new Trinity courts dedicated this weekend was the National Championship Court, a colored glass affair that will host matches featuring Trinity’s top two players. Bernardo Samper will undoubtedly call that court home for the next four years...