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...take two games on the Killer P’s home courts. After a deflating loss to Penn the night before, I suspect Columbia will come out strong against Princeton.The Tigers will also be bruised and battered from the pounding they took a night before courtesy of the juggernaut that is the Big Red. Advantage: Lions.Columbia 58, Princeton 50YALE at DARTMOUTHWho is going to stop Alex Barnett? He’s it for Dartmouth, but at home, he’s been able to get the team two big wins. It all depends on which Bulldog squad shows...
...detainees to clear houses. But typically the soldiers crashed through walls. Troops were ordered not to enter Hamas' tunnels; dogs and little robots were sent down instead. And, as one officer explains, "everything suspicious was bombed." Civilians were urged beforehand to flee, but casualties swiftly mounted as the Israeli juggernaut rumbled through Gaza. More than 1,300 Palestinians were killed in the offensive, nearly half of them civilians...
...leader was Walter Wriston. The bank's CEO from 1967 to 1984, Wriston changed the y in City to an i. After years of success, though, he left the bank with billions in bad loans to Latin America. Only profits generated by the U.S. retail-banking and credit-card juggernaut built by Wriston's protégé John Reed--combined with a certain amount of forbearance by bank regulators and a lot of cash from Saudi Arabia--enabled Citi to survive. Reed then agreed to a 1998 merger with Travelers Group, which necessitated congressional repeal of the Glass-Steagall...
...Gist: The biggest juggernaut in children's-television history sprang forth from mundane origins. At a Manhattan dinner party in 1966, a Carnegie Foundation executive named Lloyd Morrissett mentioned that his young daughter was so enthralled by television that she would park herself in front of the family's set to gaze at early-morning test patterns. That story prompted a public-television producer named Joan Cooney to investigate how television could be used to package education as entertainment: "What if it went down more like ice cream than spinach?" The ensuing creation - in which kids learned everything from empathy...
...close second, and co-captain Kai Itameri-Kinter was third-best with an 8-4 record. The women continued to outperform the men, demolishing Vassar 22-5, the Violets 21-6, the Owls 18-9, and Princeton 17-10. The lone loss came against fencing juggernaut Penn State 17-10. The foil squad led the way again, with co-captain Emily Cross posting an undefeated, 15-0 mark. She was followed closely by a number of rookies who continued to impress in the young season. Freshman epee fencer Noam Mills had an 11-2 afternoon, and classmate and sabre fencer...