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...tied for second place in the Ivies, each trailing league-leading Cornell by two wins. A sweep by either team would result in a playoff game for the Ivy title between the victor and the Big Red (30-14, 11-3 Ivy), while a split would give the crown Harvard claimed last year to Cornell outright...
...other side of the diamond, Dartmouth comes into this weekend sporting a 4-2 home record this season and a 14-2 mark over the past two years. The Big Green split a doubleheader against Vermont on Tuesday after splitting one with Yale and then sweeping another against Brown over the weekend. This performance last week helped Dartmouth set team records for Ivy League wins and doubleheader sweeps...
...real question about the impending split is why. As long as Milosevic was in power, Montenegrins had ample reason to distance themselves from the regime. But even with Milosevic in prison, Djukanovic insists there are good reasons to get out. One is size. Under a six-nation Yugoslav federation, Montenegro enjoyed equal status with the other republics. Today, says Djukanovic, real power sharing for the 650,000 Montenegrins is "an illusion." He asks: "How can you have an equal partnership if one partner is 18 times larger than the other...
...with a 49 percent mandate and a split-down-the-middle Senate, these are not shocking admissions. Bush's big-tax-relief, small-government campaign platform was of, for, and by the Republican base that wrote Bush the checks to get him elected, and all campaign promises get put through the Congressional meat-grinder sooner or later. The surprise may be that it's taken this long for Bush to admit the obvious...
...most efficient and dangerous terror groups in the world were in competition with each other. It was as if two units of the same army had decided at once to see who could fight the enemy more fiercely - and stopped cooperating in the process. The impact of the split was undeniable: a ratcheting up of anti-Israel terror campaigns...