Word: pulling
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...gritty second half performance allowed the Harvard men’s basketball team to pull away from Army for a 66-54 win Saturday at Lavietes Pavilion. Junior guard Jeremy Lin led the Crimson (3-1) with 24 points and freshman forward Keith Wright had his first collegiate double-double with 12 points and a career-best 13 rebounds as their team outscored the Black Knights (1-5) 37-26 in the second half after being up just one at the break. Harvard overcame a rough 9-of-29 shooting performance in the first half and 17 committed turnovers against...
...Justice Department, earned a reputation as a relatively moderate legal thinker when serving there as a senior official in the Clinton Administration. That concerns some civil libertarians. "If you leave these on the books, you leave a bunch of loaded guns that future Presidents and agency heads can pull out and shoot when they want to," says Anthony Romero, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union...
It’s not how you start, it’s how you finish. And seniors Evan Harris and Drew Housman came off the bench to deliver in big ways, as they helped Harvard pull away in the final minutes to defeat Holy Cross 69-59 last night...
...second, Housman and Harris made their presences felt in the final exhilarating moments. Harris blocked two shots in the final minute as Holy Cross was desperate to narrow the margin, emphatically swatting away the second one. Housman keyed Harvard’s pull-away, finding junior guard Jeremy Lin for a three-pointer to make it 56-52 with under five minutes left, then fed freshman guard Max Kenyi for another three two minutes later to give the team a double-digit lead at 63-53. Following a Crusader basket on the next possession, the guard came back, driving...
...half-time show. “We as a band are always careful to be funny as well as tasteful,” said Julie A. Duncan ’09, of the Harvard Band. “I’d imagine that if anyone tried to pull what the Yale students did in the Harvard band, we would have said ‘no, no, no.’ Profanity is just one of those things that can’t go on the field.” Harvard students in the stands tended to side with Yale...