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Last Saturday at Dartmouth, captain Neil Rose and the potent Crimson offense moved the ball at will, setting eight school records and evoking memories of 2001 in a 31-26 triumph over the Big Green. Tomorrow it will need to avoid a letdown, as the dangerous but underachieving Lions (1-6, 0-4 Ivy) aim to avenge last year’s 45-33 defeat and pull off one of the season’s biggest upsets...
Columbia, which has achieved a winning Ivy record only once since 1971, hopes to avoid becoming the Crimson offense’s latest victim, a task that may be easier said than done. The Lions have struggled defensively all year, allowing 34 points per contest during their current six-game losing streak. Last week, Yale quarterback Jeff Mroz had a career game against them, slinging for 306 yards and four touchdowns in a dominant 35-7 Bulldog triumph. On the year, opponents have torched the Columbia defense for 418 yards a game, dominating the submissive Lions both...
...this highlighted how “A good name is rather to be chosen/than great riches/and loving favour/rather than silver and gold” is somewhat ambiguous. This quote could mean that morality and love are inherently in conflict with wealth and that one cannot avoid choosing sides. Or it could be saying that one needs to choose morality and love over wealth if and only if and a choice presents itself. If the latter is (dubiously) the case, then the evidence of riches all throughout the Thompson Room does not disprove their donors’ having chosen...
...difficulty of the upcoming road trips makes success this weekend essential to avoid falling into an early-season deficit in the ECAC standings...
...Saddam knows full well that his regime will never survive an American onslaught. The Iraqi dictator's primary concern has always been maintaining his grip on power, and for that reason diplomats throughout the Middle East believe he will likely do everything he can to avoid an invasion. Saddam has spent the past year assiduously courting Washington's Arab allies in the hope of persuading erstwhile enemies against siding with the U.S. Most of those regimes have come out against a new war, but they've also made clear to Baghdad that avoiding one will depend on Saddam complying with...