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...Vance ’08 leading an experienced lineup, and a number of talented freshmen plugging in whatever holes remained, the Crimson should have been able to put together a respectable season, or a mediocre one at the very least.But Harvard seemed to lose its drive somewhere on its Spring Break to California—where it was toasted by some of the top teams in the nation—and let its struggles carry into the Ivy season. Pretty much everybody underperformed, starting at the top: Haviland and Vance each put up the worst numbers of their collegiate careers...
...first beat as a fledgling sports reporter last spring was wrestling, a vacancy left for a freshman because it had escaped the interest of even my fellow sports fanatics. I had never seen a wrestling match (my high school didn’t have a team), and thus pored through the NCAA rulebook for help, too afraid to ask the athletes about the basics (junior co-captain Louis Caputo may be a gentle soul, but a meeting in person makes it painfully obvious that he could kill you with his bare hands...
...firing student workers. Instead, they said they will significantly reduce the number of temporary workers hired for the summer. Athletic administrators alluded to this year’s disorderly and drawn out process to finalize the department’s budget. Though budgets are typically submitted early in the spring, the athletic department—like the academic departments within the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and undergraduate Houses—is still without a fiscal plan for next year. One administrator added that several budgets have been submitted to University Hall, but as of yesterday, all have been rejected...
...That closeness indicates the distance he and his teammates have traveled since their first meeting on Scout Day. Plenty of these metaphorical miles were logged during the team’s spring break trip to Louisiana, where, sandwiched in between athletes on van rides to and from games and practices, Resendes began to feel like part of a team...
...influenza—a category which includes the swine flu—though it will take one or two more days before the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention can identify the specific strain of virus. Pawlenty only identified the patient as a woman affiliated with schools in Cold Spring, in central Minnesota. In response to her probable swine flu, Rocori Middle School and St. Boniface School in Cold Spring were voluntarily closed today. Health Commissioner Sanne Magnan, also present at the press conference yesterday, said the woman is recovering and did not have to be hospitalized. According to Magnan...