Word: weeks
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With the victory, Harvard was all but mathematically eliminated from the Ivy title race. Barring any major upsets, the winner of next week's Brown-Dartmouth showdown will end up sharing the title with Princeton. Any scenario with the Crimson still maintaining the share of the title involves Princeton losing to Penn and the Brown-Dartmouth winner losing to a lower-tier Ivy team...
...Crimson's losses this week will greatly damage its hopes for a first round bye in the NCAA Tournament, although a win on Tuesday at once-highly touted Hartford, who is coming off a win against Dartmouth, would greatly help its seeding...
Then again, it was Dartmouth. Next week against Columbia, another Ivy cellar dweller, the O-line will have its last chance to fine-tune the power running attack before tough games with Penn and Yale...
...attention to local school politics on a recent episode of NBC-TV's hit show "The West Wing" seems especially appropriate in the final days of this real-life American campaign. Anyone hearing George W. Bush and Al Gore might think that the big vote we're casting next week is really for superintendent in chief...
...better program? For much of the campaign, Bush had neutralized the traditional Democratic advantage on education, boasting of a Texas record that enabled him to say that he, not Gore, knows what works. Last week a Rand Corp. study called parts of Bush's record into question, noting that many of Texas' touted gains may have been the result of widespread test cramming, not actual learning. But Bush stands by his record (a Rand study earlier this year showed that by several measures Texas leads the nation) and pledges to enact the Texas testing and accountability program on a national...