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There is, however, more to the Brown match than an early-season squash showdown. The Bruins are led by former Crimson coach Paul Moses, the man responsible for raising Harvard to national contention. Currently, Princeton stands far above the rest of the country, as Yale and Harvard struggle for the number-two spot and Brown scrambles just behind...
Passage of the bill might well cause a constitutional showdown. Congress has the right to limit the federal judiciary's jurisdiction, but some scholars believe that the legislators would be exceeding that power if they took away the authority to enforce something as sacred as the First Amendment. If the bill becomes law, prayer cases could still be tried in state courts, but that might produce a crazy quilt of constitutional interpretations...
Dineen, who played number nine for last season's championship assemblage, permitted just 19 points in his showdown. Duffy, who has improved immensely since he arrived with the Class of '82, made a strong showing...
...Game on the field was the centerpiece of the showdown, yes, but the battle in the bleachers proved every bit as intense, a sort of telepathic war of wits, one side of the Stadium trying to disprove its inferiority complex, the other trying to convey the impression that regardless of the outcome, one team still goes to Yale...
...power struggle between Poland's newly independent labor movement and the Warsaw regime of Party Boss Stanislaw Kania has become an international suspense serial, one showdown giving way to the next, each resolved in the nick of time. From a shipyard in the Baltic seaport of Gdansk, the drama has radiated across Poland and the East bloc. Now it is affecting Western Europe and the U.S. as well...