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...Union reach an agreement permitting the guards to organize for the first time since the University outsourced their jobs two years prior, a change that signaled a hard-fought victory for the guards and student activists. CORRECTION: The original online version of the story “Second Hunger Striker Hospitalized” and an accompanying photo caption incorrectly stated that student protesters had held a vigil outside the home of Interim President Derek C. Bok. In fact, the students’ vigil took place at 33 Elmwood Ave., the currently vacant official residence of Harvard’s president...
...that if the top 100 male tennis players were banned from touching a racquet for a month, the great American baseliner Andre Agassi would have been most likely to win the first tournament played thereafter. The reasoning was that Agassi, who retired last year, was the most gifted ball striker on the Tour and therefore the least dependent on practice for producing his best in matches...
...Harvard coach John Kerr said. “[They scored] a minute or two [into] the game and then right before halftime, and that was the backbreaker for us.”UCLA dominated from the opening whistle to the end of the first half, double-teaming Crimson freshman striker André Akpan and using a speedy backfield to keep Harvard from sneaking a ball through to either Akpan or captain Charles Altchek. “We knew they had talented strikers—the Freshman of the Year [Akpan] and the Player of the Year [Altchek], so we came...
...Yale game, Akpan, a striker with the soccer skills and savvy of a senior, recapitulated his season-opening performance against highly-touted Old Dominion. He has not looked back since...
...John and André read each other really well,” Kerr said. “John was a striker like André, so he understands where Andre’s running and where he wants the ball. You can see the telepathic sparks flying between them when they’re playing together...