Word: bump
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...Harvard fans listened to the updates of PA announcer Mike Brewster, they hoped for losses by other NCAA tournament bubble teams. The Crimson faithful also paid close attention to underdogs in the CCHA, Hockey East and WCHA tournaments, who had the potential to bump Harvard out of its tenuous at-large bid were they to earn their leagues’ automatic bids as conference champs...
...recall that the Crimson lost to Northern Michigan, 3-2, back in December. So if MSU wins on Thursday, it would win the common opponents comparison with a 3-2 record, move up to No. 13 and bump Harvard to No. 14, a precarious position to be in if underdogs win either the CCHA or WCHA...
...been playing No. 3 singles, injured his shoulder, forcing Harvard coach David Fish ’72 to bump everyone up a spot and insert Beren at No. 6. It was Beren’s first dual match of the year...
...occasional weekend tent of a Kuwaiti city dweller connecting with his Bedouin roots. But now the country's northern half is a restricted military zone crammed with more than 100,000 U.S. and British troops. Makeshift firing ranges are double-booked. Patrols practicing forays into Iraqi wastelands bump into one another where their perimeters overlap. When troops from the 101st Airborne Division arrived last week, soldiers from the 3rd Infantry Division had to move camp back from the border to make room...
...singing would make Simon Cowell cringe, but she regularly packs concerts and performs on national television. She hasn't released a single recording, but one critic estimates that some 3 million pirated VCDs of her performances have been sold in Indonesia. Muslim clerics denounce her bump-and-grind dancing, attempt to ban her concerts, even pray for rain to keep impressionable fans away from her shows, yet politicians are lining up to recruit her support for the 2004 elections. She's become the live wire connecting Indonesia's still nascent freedom of expression with the country's entrenched?and often...