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Freshman winger Kalen Ingram had hit a slapshot from senior defender Christie MacKinnon into the upper corner of the net in the waning moments of regulation to tie the game, 2-2, but it would go for naught...
Harvard had numerous golden chances to get the equalizer, sending 11 shots on Laing in the third period that went for naught as the Engineers (19-12-2, 11-9-1) held...
...recent decision of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) to withdraw from negotiations on disarmament may signal the untimely end of the 1998 Good Friday agreement. If so, one of the last, best hopes for an end to the troubles has come to naught...
Against Vermont, Long's career-high 26 points and Coleman's first career double-double both went for naught as the Harvard defense was scorched by Catamounts' guard Tony Orciari, who lit up the Crimson for 30 points...
...once scorned as the devil's work. It is such a familiar number today that it may be hard to believe there was a time--hundreds of years, actually--when our species counted and spoke but had no concept of zero. Seife and Kaplan both trace the history of naught, from its inception in Babylon around 300 B.C. through Athens, India and Europe later in the Middle Ages. It took Western mathematicians so long to accept zero because of their reluctance to treat nothing as something. Zero was equated with the abyss, the void, the unknown--all psychologically unpleasant subjects...