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...Harvard men’s basketball team fell to Yale 82-74 Friday night at the John J. Lee Amphitheater. After Bulldogs point guard Chris Andrews hit two free throws to forge a 72-57 lead, the Crimson (10-6, 2-1 Ivy) scored the next seven points to pull within eight. Harvard could have cut further into the Yale advantage, but it connected on just 5-of-9 attempts from the free throw line during that span. The Crimson struggled from the line all night, converting just 19 of its 33 opportunities, well below its season average...
...Hollywood, take some lessons," implores Russian coach Evgeny Platov, who despite a combustive partnership with Oksana (Pasha) Grishuk--"I went cuckoo"--faked love on ice to win gold medals with Grishuk in '94 and '98. Italian ice dancers Barbara Fusar-Poli and Maurizio Margaglio might have to pull an Oscar in Torino; they have consulted two psychologists to help them get along. But, insists Margaglio, "when I am on the ice, Barbara is my woman...
...Stehle and Cusworth. They wouldn’t let the preseason players of the year beat them. So, the current player of the year did.After the Crimson jumped out to a 19-9 lead with 7:52 left in the half, Brown center Mark McDonald nailed a three to pull the Bears back within seven. What followed might well be the best three minutes of Goffredo’s career.Freshman point guard Drew Housman found Goffredo on the subsequent possession, and Goffredo buried his second three of the game. Under a minute later, Housman again hit Goffredo, who nailed another...
...Harvard men’s basketball team fell to Yale 82-74 Friday night at the John J. Lee Amphitheater. After Bulldogs point guard Chris Andrews hit two free throws to forge a 72-57 lead, the Crimson (10-6, 2-1 Ivy) scored the next seven points to pull within eight. Harvard could have cut further into the Yale advantage, but it connected on just 5-of-9 attempts from the free throw line during that span. The Crimson struggled from the line all night, converting just 19 of its 33 opportunities, well below its season average...
...Afghanistan in the next two years? Yet that is what officials on both sides of the Atlantic are saying as the alliance faces up to the reality of its ambition, announced in February 2005, to take on a bigger role in Afghanistan. The Dutch parliament is now threatening to pull the plug on the Netherlands' 1,200-strong contribution to the expanded mission. The Netherlands is still gripped by the humiliation its country's troops suffered almost 10 years ago when they were taken hostage and then had to stand by as Muslims were herded out of Srebrenica...