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...addition to Harvard's failing in its quest for bragging rights in Boston, the Crimson also lost any chance it had of winning the Ivy League crown with its setback against the Elis. With a 5-3-0 record, Harvard should finish second in the race for the Ivy League title...
Despite the setback, the Crimson remains in contention for its other goal, an ECAC title. Currently, Harvard is third in the conference standings, trailing only St. Lawrence and Vermont, and its performance this weekend proved it should not be counted...
Despite this setback, the Crimson still dominated the field. "We're very satisfied with our performance especially coming right out of exams," Ben-Shachar said...
...finish at 5194.07. Advancing issues led decliners by nearly 5 to 3 on the New York Stock Exchange on a heavy volume of 468.92 million shares. The NYSE composite index rose 0.92 to 332.63, with the S&P's index up 0.59 at 621.32. Meanwhile, technology stocks suffered a setback, causing the technology-heavy Nasdaq composite index to fall 12.39 points to 1,046.26. And in London, gold soared to $393.75, up $6.90. Photographs...
Along the way, however, Galileo suffered a serious setback. In 1991, when J.P.L. controllers attempted to deploy the spacecraft's main, 16-ft.-wide, umbrella-like antenna--which had been tucked away during the Venus encounter to protect it from solar radiation--three of the antenna's 18 ribs got stuck. Despite more than 13 months of ingenious and increasingly desperate measures to shake these ribs loose, the antenna, which had been capable of transmitting 134,400 digital bits per second (or a complete image in about a minute), remains unusable...