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...Crimson now looks ahead to a showdown with Ivy League rival Cornell this Sunday at Jordan Field...
Sunday's tilt with San Diego State will provide Harvard with a final tune-up before it returns home next Wednesday to face Boston College in a rematch of last year's NCAA tournament showdown...
Slobodan Milosevic admits he lost Yugoslavia's presidential election, but not the full extent of his defeat - and that sets the stage for a dramatic showdown with an opposition ready to take to the streets to claim its victory. Preliminary official results announced Tuesday put opposition leader Vojislav Kostunica eight points ahead of the Serb strongman, but deny him the 50 percent margin required to claim first-round victory. Opposition leaders scoff at the figures released by Milosevic's electoral commission, confidently claiming that independent officials monitoring the count at local ballot stations confirm that Kostunica won 55 percent...
Coming into the Games, the talk around the pool was hardly about drugs in sport. Instead, the meet was touted as a showdown between the U.S. and Australia for the title of world's top swimming nation, with both countries initially trying to claim the status of underdog. By Saturday night, the U.S. had easily retained its champion nation's title, winning 33 medals, 14 of them gold - an improvement on both counts over the 1996 Atlanta Games. "When you're faced with a worthy opponent, it forces you to work for it," said American sprinter Gary Hall...
...there's an inadvertently meaningful moment--a showdown between Bleeth and Principal disguised as a conversation about home decor. Bleeth: "Let me guess. You subscribe to the old-is-better theory." Principal: "No. More like the good-taste-never-goes-out-of-style theory." It's tempting to see it as a proxy catfight between Star and Spelling. For a master of camp, Spelling has no sense of camp about his own work; at Titans' unveiling for TV writers in July, he took haughty umbrage at a suggestion that audiences laugh at, not with, his shows...