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...sweeping aside the curtains behind his desk and revealing through repairmen's scaffolding the marbled city below with its great avenues running toward the White House. "'Mr. President, this is the best view in town,' Howard said. The President looked at him and answered, 'No, Howard, it is the second-best view...
Entering the game against the Lady Lakers, the Crimson boasted the second-best penalty kill unit, right behind that of Mercyhurst. While Harvard managed to convert on its own power plays to stay in the game, it prevented the Lady Lakers from scoring any on five chances. The unit of Corriero, Chu, and freshman Sarah Vaillancourt even killed a minute of 5-3 ice time in the first period and another half minute in the first overtime...
...Radcliffe’s best racing was still ahead. It was offered one of 12 team bids to the NCAA Championship in Sacramento, Calif., and made the most of its invitation. The 1V raced to third place, and in capturing the bronze turned in the second-best Black and White finish ever in the race. The 2V finished third in the petite final, or ninth overall, while the varsity four came in sixth in the petite final, taking 12th overall. Radcliffe amassed enough team points to place sixth in the country, also the second-best showing in program history...
Radcliffe posted the second-best qualifying time en route to winning its heat earlier...
Harvard’s cadre of honorable mentions, meanwhile, is three-fourths composed of the three pitchers in its short starting rotation. Freshman phenom Shawn Haviland (6-1, 3.18), Herrmann (4-1, 3.40), and senior Mike Morgalis (5-0, 3.52) captained a pitching staff with the second-best ERA in the Ivy League, compiling just two losses among them...