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...this year, don’t let the hardwood intrigues pass you by. Penn is still the team to beat, Princeton will be tough to dispatch, and Cornell and Yale are talented up-and-comers, while Harvard is trying to avoid slipping into the bottom half once again...
...seeded SMU during the regular season.Again, having No. 10 Clemson fall to a 10-7-3 team seems less possible, but still could easily happen.Even if both games go the right way on Wednesday, the NCAA committee might give in to the pleas of a Harvard administration trying to avoid the complete chaos that could be caused by a tailgate on the practice fields during a NCAA Tournament game on Ohiri itself.But this student has his own plea: make the choice between the tailgate and the game an easy one for Harvard students and alumni alike this year...
...task facing the Old Guard is to fashion an exit strategy from Iraq that can salvage U.S. prestige and avoid turning the civil war into an even wider and more violent catastrophe. There are only a few known knowns here: it surely pains the father that it has come to this. It is just as galling to the son that he had to invite his father's most trusted consiglieres to step in and help clean up his mess overseas. Neither man appreciates the chortling sounds coming from the vast Bush 41 crowd, which has long harbored grave doubts about...
...this season, in this space, I’ve written about quarterbacks, preseason polls, football fights, and home-field advantage. Somehow, I’ve managed to avoid the most compelling plotline of the season—Harvard running back Clifton Dawson’s quest to break the all-time Ivy League rushing record. Good thing I saved it for this go-round...
...scale of America's troop commitment in Iraq has always been a political question, answered in the context of the concern by the war's architects to avoid provoking a Vietnam-style domestic political backlash sabotaging the mission...