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...Crimson elevated its play to the highest point it would see in the night in the waning minutes of the first. With two minutes left to play, sophomore forward Alex Killorn powered past two Eagles defenders to spark Harvard’s offense to launch four consecutive shots at Eagles netminder John Muse...
...election commission barred some 500 candidates from Iraq's parliamentary elections in March, acting on a list compiled by another panel that cited alleged ties to the outlawed Baath Party once led by Saddam Hussein. The move threatened to spark sectarian strife by angering members of the country's Sunni minority, who claimed they would be disproportionately affected and saw the ruling as an attempt to curtail their participation...
Sophomore epee James Hawrot was a spark for the men Saturday, leading his weapon to a 9-0 win over Haverford and keying a 5-4 win against Air Force. Hawrot defeated senior Falcon Peter French, who, according to Brand, is one of the top epee fencers in the nation...
...freshmen] pretty much have been our on-court leaders,” Harvard coach Traci Green said. “They’ve been a spark for the others...
Although Obama has a history of using big speeches to spark or recalibrate his fortunes (the Democratic National Convention keynote in Boston in 2004, his Iowa Jefferson-Jackson Dinner speech in 2007, his oration on race in 2008, which was prompted by the controversy surrounding Chicago pastor Jeremiah Wright), no realistic appraiser of Obama's looming State of the Union believes he can turn everything around with one prime-time address. (See the State of the Union Address in 3 Minutes...