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...he’s going to never fumble the football, and I think it’s asking a lot to expect that a kid’s going to do that every day, every game, four years out.”But Dawson has been up to the task, averaging 113.9 yards a game with 11 total touchdowns last season. Quarterback Liam O’Hagan scrambled for eight more touchdowns, reducing Dawson’s overall touchdown output from the year before.And so the pressure is on for the Scarborough, Ont. native.Having put out three impressive seasons, Dawson...
...center), and it took him the better part of five games to get on track.But five games of experience may not even be necessary to lead the Crimson into a strong season. Witt’s numbers last weekend suggest the young starter may be more up to the task than anyone previously believed. “You’d think that it would throw off the consistency and the continuity and the execution of the offense, but it wasn’t indicative in the Holy Cross game,” Harvard coach Tim Murphy said...
Liberals have taken Harvard to task, too, notably during the “living-wage” campaign in 2001. Democrats with national clout, including Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, supported the students who staged a three-week sit-in inside the University president’s office in Massachusetts Hall and cast Harvard as an epitome of capitalism’s social ills...
...into the game.“We just kind of came out slow and they jumped right on top of us,” said sophomore forward Mike Fucito. “It took the wind out of us. We knew had to come from behind. It made our task greater.”Even with diminished energy, Harvard was able to protect its own goal until halftime. The Crimson was helped in part by some spectacular saves by sophomore goalie Adam Hahn and the defenders against two consecutive Catamount corner kicks.“At halftime we had some...
...Wolfowitz is fast discovering that getting your way and getting results at one of the world's most powerful and complicated multilateral development agencies is no easy task. At a meeting in Singapore on Monday, the Bank's shareholder governments agreed to Wolfowitz's anti-corruption strategy but only if they oversee its management. Wolfowitz had wanted the Bank to disburse loans and grants based on the recipients' anti-corruption efforts, but the 24 members of the Development Committee, the World Bank's governing body, also insisted that the Bank use incentives rather than threaten sanctions to induce good behavior...