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Brown (9-7 overall, 3-1 Ivy), meanwhile, has been the surprise of the Ivies. After compiling just a 5-9 league record in '84-'85 (good enough for a seventh place standing), the Bruins are currently sitting atop the Ancient Eight...
...robots have a harder time capturing the public's imagination by exhibiting the "right stuff," the courage to sit atop a giant rocket and be hurled into space...
Nothing much has changed in the Ivies since the Crimson swept Penn and Princeton out of Cambridge two weekends ago. The women cagers remain atop the league standings and are assured of being there when they meet Yale in their first post-exam period Ivy match...
Penn comes into tonight's game atop the Ivies (1-0) despite having the worst overall record (1-8). Delaney Smith expects to see the Quakers play a very scrappy game, relying on outside shooting to compensate for their weak inside game...
Schmidt pronounces himself "thrilled about getting up there and digging into" the prestigious office atop the 284-year-old school. At the same time, he admits to being "somewhat apprehensive about the complexity" of his role as Yale's 20th president. That role has been made easier by the incumbency of Giamatti, 48, who more than doubled Yale's endowment to a formidable $1.3 billion and pushed forward a $25 million building-renovation program. Giamatti, who has been offered a sabbatical from Yale and is contemplating a plunge into politics, indicated that eight years of fretting over money and maintenance...