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...things must eventually come to an end, good or bad. For the Harvard men’s basketball team, this end was a long time coming. After suffering seven straight Ivy League losses—including a monumental heartbreaker against Cornell at home last weekend—the Crimson turned the tables on the visiting Tigers and found itself on the winning side of a late-game collapse.“It’s a monkey off our back,” sophomore Dan McGeary said of the victory. “Its just really refreshing because we?...
...fourth game was certainly the turning point, with the Crimson coming off two straight victories, 30-21 and 30-25. The problems really began in the first game, however, when Harvard posted a significant number of errors, 13 of its 34 total. Despite so many errors, the Crimson fell to the Violets 29-31 in a tight game. NYU’s winning point in the game came from a hitting error by Harvard...
...Dartmouth, 9-0, to record its second 9-0 whitewash in as many days. The match was no contest from its outset. Only one player, sophomore No. 3 Katherine O’Donnell, needed four sets to secure the win, while the other eight matches were all decided in straight sets, 3-0. With the wins, freshman No. 2 Alisha Mashruwala, captain No. 6 Supriya Balsekar, and sophomore No. 9 Sandra Mumanachit went undefeated in the Howe Cup. “The team has raised its level throughout the season and this win speaks volumes for their efforts...
...growth of 5% last year - somewhat tepid by Korean standards - forecasts for 2008 call for the country's 2008 GDP growth to decline to around 4% as the U.S. battles a recession and demand for Korean exports eases globally. In February South Korea is expected to post its third straight monthly trade deficit - the first time that's happened in more than five years - as high oil prices and declining exports continue to bite. "The external environment helped the two previous Presidents," says Kim Kyeong Won, an economist and senior vice president of the Samsung Economic Research Institute (SERI...
What's French for "be careful what you wish for?" Just ask the 19 million voters who flocked to the straight-talking, populist presidential candidate Nicolas Sarkozy last spring. Many of them apparently now find themselves mortified by their president's flashy private life and penchant for talking trash. Recent surveys show Sarkozy's approval rating falling to new lows of 38%, and pollsters are attributing the decline to voters' spying a vulgarity in their president incompatible with their standards for the office. Apparently, Sarkozy isn't getting the message. On the weekend jaws dropped anew as he publicly insulted...