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...watched his father on the BBC, and thought to myself: two Pakistani families left Pakistan, one for Bradford, the other for Singapore, produced children, brought up in two totally different environments, quite distant from the Islam of Pakistan, and yet they both end up fighting in Afghanistan. This Islamist pull is more powerful than that of communism. The communists never fully trusted one another across racial boundaries. The Vietnamese communists never trusted the Chinese communists and so on. But with the Islamists there is total trust: You are a warrior for Islam, so am I: We swear to fight together...
...sophomore Bobby Latessa (149 lbs.) could not sustain the momentum built by Preston, as Picarsic lost his match on a technical fall and Latessa lost an 8-4 decision. Freshman Andrew Flanagan (157 lbs.) managed a hard-fought bout against 19th-ranked James Strouse, but could not pull off the upset, dropping a 3-2 decision and putting Harvard in a 17-6 hole. Some questionable calls by the referees went against the Crimson and hampered the comeback effort. “The referees weren’t giving us too many calls,” Preston said...
Stehle, who led the Crimson with 13 points, hit two threes and freshman point guard Drew Housman sunk one from the corner to pull Harvard back to within four after it had trailed by as many...
...free.After an auspicious 5-0 start, the Crimson has dropped three straight and had its free throw percentage drop nearly six points in that span. Harvard led the league in accuracy from the stripe with a 79 percent success rate after five games, but has since seen Columbia pull ahead by a slim margin.The Crimson shot just 6-of-9 from the line against Lehigh.“We couldn’t get to the free-throw line today,” Harvard coach Frank Sullivan said. “On the road, that can become very, very frustrating...
Senior forward Zach Martin grinded out two straight inside buckets and junior guard Jim Goffredo nailed a trifecta to pull the Crimson within four with less than three minutes remaining. Lehigh answered with two fast-break buckets to forge a 64-56 advantage, and the Harvard offense sputtered the rest...