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Looming for Harvard is an out-of-conference showdown with third-ranked Connecticut on October 23 and a crucial Ivy contest against Dartmouth...
...this point, Harvard, by virtue of its imposing start, must be considered the favorite, but the Nov. 2 showdown against Dartmouth will be telling. IVY STANDINGS IVY OVERALL Team W L PCT W L PCT Harvard 3 0 1.00 7 0 1.00 Dartmouth 3 0 1.00 6 1 .857 Columbia 1 1 .500 7 1 .875 Yale 1 1 .500 5 2 .688 Princeton 1 2 .333 3 5 .375 Brown 0 1 .250 1 6 .222 Cornell 0 2 .000 3 5 .375 Pennsylvania...
...mayor, the vice mayor, five other city council members and about 50 other supporters of various cultural backgrounds anticipated a showdown as they packed the small conference room in which the seven-member commission...
...Herald took a similar stance: "Senate foes clash in bitter showdown--In the most explosive debate of their now-bitter battle, Sen. John F. Kerry and Gov. William F. Weld fought over everything from taxes and foreign policy to drug addicts and welfare reform last night...
...common ground, which poll after poll shows voters prefer to the partisan divisions that many believe have infected our political system. Specifically, independents and moderate Republicans often preferred this values-based appeal to the more strident rhetoric adopted by Newt Gingrich and his colleagues during the 1995 budget showdown. Our polling also demonstrated conclusively that while voters preferred the Republican version of limited government in 1994, by 1996 they favored President Clinton's fiscally prudent values-based appeal over the Republican alternative by better than...