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...hang with the big dogs of the Ancient Eight. Doing so would reverse a long running trend that has seen Harvard drop its last nine contests to Penn and thirteen of its last fourteen games to the Tigers.“The mental toughness aspect is very huge, especially in the Ivy League, where it’s short bursts of Friday-Saturday [games] and then five days off,” senior center Brian Cusworth says. “It’s really easy for any sort of negative atmosphere to snowball. We got into a funk...
...never managed to put together two halves of solid basketball against the league’s premiere competition. In the six games against Dartmouth, Brown, and Princeton, Harvard was outscored in the first half 220-169 and never led at the break. “[Last year] is a huge motivation for us this season,” Hallion said. “Last year we knew that we were very talented and none of our real goals came to fruition. Having that experience really makes you not take what you have for granted and really makes you focus...
...Bush's father did during the first Gulf War when he emphasized, rightly, the moral justifications for defending Kuwait against Iraq's aggression. But James Baker made a gaffe (defined by Michael Kinsley as a politician accidentally saying something true) by stating the obvious, which was that Kuwait's huge oil reserves made the war also an issue of the U.S.'s economic security and "jobs, jobs, jobs...
...penetration to score 15 points on 4-of-8 shooting from the floor and 6-of-7 from the line.Harvard also got key contributions from a pair of unheralded players. Freshman Jeremy Lin saw significant minutes at guard in his first collegiate game, chipping in four steals and a huge driving layup that put Harvard up by one late. Reserve forward Brad Unger, a junior, finished with 10 points by hitting four of his five shots, none bigger than a layup with 31 seconds left that gave Harvard a five-point cushion. The Crimson, which was out-rebounded...
...ready.”Kat Kocurek, a freshman libero, missed seven matches because of an injury sustained against Penn in early October. She returned to the lineup against Cornell last weekend, setting a comfortable tone on the court for the Crimson.“Kat’s a huge plus to have,” Turley-Moloney said of Kocurek, who dug 18 balls, boosting her team-leading mark of 4.44 digs per game. “We can rely on her making great plays. She’s wise beyond her years, and it’s great...