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...indoor season with a strong showing in the two-day Indoor Heptagonal Championships at Cornell’s Barton Hall. The women improved upon last year’s fifth-place finish with 46 points, enough to narrowly beat Penn and Columbia for fourth. The men repeated an eighth-place finish, but improved on their point totals, raking in 14 team points.“We have a lot better team than we have had in the past few years,” senior co-captain Sally Stanton said.The Princeton women—who finished only four points ahead...
...Billy Stallings took home the gold in men’s epee at the event held at Vassar in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. Men’s epee continued to be a high point for the squad, as senior Teddy Sherrill took bronze in the meet, and sophomore Karl Harmenberg finished eighth out of 34. The Crimson was the only squad to notch three top-10 epee finishes. “Today I started out feeling pretty sick, so I wasn’t sure how it was going to go,” Stallings said. “[In the final...
...fans in attendance probably expected to see an easy win for the Crimson.After all, given that Harvard came into the game a perfect 22-0-0 in conference play, ranked No.1 in the country and the top seed in the ECAC playoffs, the prospect of facing the eighth-seeded Big Red—a sub-.500 team that the Crimson defeated twice in the regular season—would seem to be far from a daunting challenge to the outside observer.But Harvard coach Katey Stone knew better.“I expected a really close game,” Stone...
...weeks ago in Oxnard, Calif., Lawrence King—an eighth-grader who had recently come out as gay and had begun wearing makeup and dressing like a woman—was shot in the head by a 14-year-old classmate. While crimes motivated by homophobia are unfortunately not unheard of, this incident struck many as particularly disturbing. This murder at a middle school in a comfortable, middle-class beach community has been classified as a hate crime for which the perpetrator—who is being tried as an adult—faces up to 52 years...
...presidential campaign for his view of teaching evolution, but has evaded the issue. "It is interesting that question would even be asked of someone running for President of the United States," Huckabee responded in a presidential debate last June. "I am not planning on writing the curriculum for an eighth grade science book - I am asking for the opportunity to be President of the United States...