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Continuing its downward slide, the Crimson (1-7, 0-2 Ivy) suffered its worst loss of the season, losing 13-2 against arch rival Brown (3-4, 1-1 Ivy) at the Smith Swim Center in Providence...
...position it had envisioned. Despite a 73 from Klein and 74 from junior Chris Wu on Saturday, the Crimson found itself in the middle of the 19-team pack. With a combined total score of 23 over par, Harvard was tied for ninth, 18 strokes behind arch rival and tournament-leading Yale...
...Korea's security concerns, although not a full- fledged non-aggression pact. But President Bush has repeatedly warned, even on the eve of the current talks, that Kim Jong Il cannot be trusted to keep agreements, and the White House came out in support of a speech by the arch-hawk Undersecretary of State for Non-Proliferation John Bolton that described Kim as a "tyrant" keeping his people imprisoned in a "living hell" and warned against giving in to Pyongyang's nuclear "extortion." That speech, a U.S. diplomat told TIME, "basically called for regime change," and that's in line...
...demented fans predict total victory. Then, very soon, their outfielders start dropping flies, their infielders fling routine ground balls in the general direction of Mount Fuji and three Tigers runners simultaneously arrive, bewildered, at the same base. Their home-run hitter goes off to join the Detroit Tigers. Their arch-rivals, the Yomiuri Giants of Tokyo, claim the pennant. And the Tigers fans, like Japan's perennially beleaguered politicians and CEOs, promise domination next year...
...less charitable: "The feisty cow meant it." Steel doesn't limit his jibes to historical targets; he frequently invokes modern parallels - especially British establishment types - to emphasize a point. His mention of the guillotine as a liberal, more humanitarian method of execution prompts a riff on how shrill-voiced arch-Tory Ann Widdecombe would have complained that the Jacobins were soft on crime. You might not laugh your head off, but Vive La Revolution yields enough chuckles to distinguish it from most histories...