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...Harvard to establish an uneasy and secretive alliance aimed at getting Brown and Cornell kicked off the island. Unfortunately for the Bulldogs, this game is every man for himself, and things aren’t about to get easier.Despite its losing record, Holy Cross is a tough non-conference foe that missed dropping Harvard by a point two weeks ago and is fresh off a confidence-building 38-14 win over Patriot League punching bag Georgetown.I think Yale will get back on its feet in time to be a contender in the Ivies, but not this week.Prediction: Holy Cross...
Three days later, Harvard (5-7, 1-0 Ivy) returned home with three more wins, including one against the league foe Big Green...
...leader marks a beginning as well as an end. So it is with the announcement by Thabo Mbeki, South Africa's President, that he is stepping down. After an interim period sure to be marked by uncertainty, Mbeki is likely to be succeeded by his former deputy and sometime foe Jacob Zuma, a populist who has faced corruption and rape charges in the past few years - allegations he has always denied and which his supporters have claimed were politically motivated. A recent court ruling that state prosecutors ignored proper legal procedure gave that claim some validity...
...winner of a hard-fought, down-to-the-wire presidential nomination battle ever received a stronger boost from his vanquished foe than Senator Barack Obama picked up from Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton here Tuesday...
...perhaps the most striking benediction she delivered to her former foe was to hand him - maybe as a loan or maybe forever - the mantle of 1990s peace and prosperity that she had hoped to wear as her own. "As I recall, we did it before with President Clinton and the Democrats," she said to a new round of cheers. "And President Obama and the Democrats will do it again...