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Harvard's 14-9 victory over Brown not only kept the Crimson in the Ivy lead, but also helped catapult Harvard into the NCAA polls for the first time since 1985. The 6-1 Crimson garnered four points and is ranked 20th in the NCAA Division 1-AA poll released yesterday...
According to conventional political wisdom, a major economic disaster such as the crash should hurt the party in power and catapult the opposition in the polls. The crash, by brutally demonstrating the volatility of the American economy under Reagan, would seem to be a perfect chance for the Democrats to show Reaganomics as the goat it is, while offering the American people an alternative for a more stable future. Instead, Democrats have concerned themselves with being more Republican than the Republicans...
With her high name recognition and intellectual stature, Kirkpatrick might do well as a symbolic candidate among neoconservatives and catapult into strong contention for the vice-presidential nomination. But she probably lacks the political machinery and electoral record (though not the ego) to organize a credible quest for delegates...
...students who broke the window were not punished for racial harassment. Instead, members of the board were concerned by "the nature of the weapon and the recklessness of using a catapult capable of breaking safety glass at 100 yards," said one Ad Board member, who spoke on the condition of anonymity...
...have to. "Unlucky in Love," for example, doesn't say much of anything, but its sonic-boom noise and punk/polka rhythm make it great fun. Otherwise, the new Rank and File's hybrid of nasal vocals and buzzsaw guitars sound like uniform drone. Rank and File may catapult the band to MTV stardom (and Rhino Records out from the novelty and oldies bins in record stores), but such success will come at the expense of the band's more interesting elements...