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...Crimson looks to improve on last season’s stellar record. Last year, Harvard finished 23-8-2 overall with a 17-4-1 record in conference play, placing it second in the league. The team finished the season ranked sixth in nation and made its fifth straight appearance in the NCAA tournament. Unfortunately, the Crimson’s national championship dreams were crushed when it lost in the first round of the NCAA tournament to No. 1 ranked Wisconsin 1-0 in a bitterly fought four-overtime game. The Badgers went on to win the national championship. This...
...Shortly after recruiting Hatch, Crowton was forced to resign after leading the team to three straight losing seasons, the first sub-.500 campaigns in 29 years. Without Crowton, Hatch lost interest in playing for BYU. So, Crowton gave his friend Harvard coach Tim Murphy a call, encouraging him to pursue the young quarterback. Murphy did, and Hatch made his way to the northeast...
...Boston Red Sox have swept the last two World Series in which they've appeared. The last team to achieve that feat was the New York Yankees, who won eight straight in the 1998 and '99 Fall Classics. Last off-season, the Sox overpaid for two free agents, outfielder J.D. Drew (five years, $70 million) and Japanese pitching phenom Daisuke Matsuzaka (six years, $52 million), just like the damn Yankees usually do. These players, however, did produce in the post-season: Drew's grand slam against the Cleveland Indians in Game 6 of the American League Championship Series helped propel...
...Barker Center audience of several dozen that pornography cannot exist separately from the mainstream. MacKinnon is a longtime social activist who has committed much of her career to advocating legislation to curb pornography and representing former porn actresses in suing for damages. In her speech Monday, MacKinnon went straight for shock tactics, suggesting that society is wrong to consider porn harmless when it produces images as bad as those that came out of Abu Ghraib. To be sure, there are many aspects of pornography that are distasteful and destructive. The sort of violent pornography that treats women exclusively as subordinate...
...volleyball team had a disappointing weekend, falling to both Yale (12-5, 6-2 Ivy) and Brown (5-14, 3-6), as the squad continued to struggle in Ivy League play. Friday night, the Crimson (7-15, 2-8) traveled to New Haven, Conn., losing in straight sets to a strong Bulldogs side. Harvard was unable to cope with Yale’s aggressive play and, according to the players, did not stick to its game plan for much of the weekend.Following the tough loss, Harvard had a much-improved display against Brown Saturday afternoon. The Crimson was able...