Word: pulling
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...standings meant that Harvard had to take on the other two teams in a playoff to determine the league’s representative in the NCAA tournament. Facing off against the Big Green in New York City, Harvard fell behind by 18 points in the second half and, despite pulling to within four with a minute to play, couldn’t come all the way back in a 68-62 defeat. Junior Emily Tay (an All-Ivy First Team pick) led the team with 22 points, and Hallion added 18 in her final collegiate game. Cornell went...
...home team left Lavietes with a 74-67 victory. Harvard finished with four scorers in double-digits and shot 50 percent from the floor in the overtime. The momentum from the comeback carried over into the next night, as the Crimson continued its winning ways and downed Penn to pull off the team’s first sweep of the Killer P’s since 1987. “I was really pleased and proud of how [the team] performed in that environment and not just accept what looked like our fate,” Amaker said...
...revelatory book. (Did they think the vaunted Bush message discipline and loyalty would last for all eternity?) And some of those who had the difficult job of covering the Bush White House day to day had not expected the underestimated McClellan, of all refugees, to be the one to pull it off. (Note to Karl Rove: McClellan just about tripled the pressure on you to tell us something we don't know when your memoir hits the bookstores...
...enforcement officials worried. Though flavored malt beverages make up less than 2% of alcohol servings in the U.S., alcohol-policy experts have long worried that many of those servings are consumed by minors who have no palate (yet) for real beer. The new alcoholic energy drinks have a further pull on the youth market: the promise that you can get drunk but still party all night because of the caffeine. Quite drunk: Joose, for instance, has the color and approximate flavor of strawberry soda, but it's 9% alcohol, compared with 5% for a typical can of Budweiser...
...years leading up to his exit in 2002, Knowles would pull the Faculty out of a deficit and back building projects that included the refurbishment of freshman dormitories and the conversion of the old Freshman Union into a new humanities hub, the Barker Center. The reception following Knowles’ service was held in Annenberg Hall, in the shadow of the Memorial Hall tower which Knowles renovated during his first term as dean, healing the damage left over from a 1956 fire...