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When Harvard welcomes Penn State, a 23-1-1 power in 2005 that lost to eventual champion Portland on penalty kicks in the NCAA semi-finals, you’ll know right away that Harvardians play ball with the big dogs...
...Trailing Schwarzenegger in the latest statewide Field poll by 8 points, Angelides signaled in a speech Wednesday that his strategy for catching up will include attacking the incumbent's record, tying Schwarzenegger to George W. Bush and positioning himself as a champion of the beleaguered middle class, in the Bill Clinton mold. "The promise of California was a birthright of the many, not a privilege of the few," Angelides said in his speech at the gymnasium of the Boys and Girls Club of Hollywood, flanked by union members and various Democratic officials. "That dream is in jeopardy because hardworking, middle...
Once the cease-fire begins, both sides will surely claim victory. Hizballah chief Hassan Nasrallah will declare himself a new champion of the Arab world for having terrorized 1.5 million Israelis with his blindly flung rockets. The Israelis can claim that they replaced the Hizballah militants along the border with Lebanese troops and a tough international force...
There, he'd find recent versions of America's national basketball teams, champion underachievers. In 2002 the U.S. finished an astounding sixth place--behind even New Zealand--at the World Championships, held on home turf in Indianapolis. The '04 Olympic team was so stillborn that even the classy, three-time NBA champ Tim Duncan looked as if he'd have preferred, say, a skin rash rather than march in the opening ceremonies. After a first game drubbing by Puerto Rico, and less-than-professional conduct from several players and then coach Larry Brown, winning bronze in Athens actually seemed like...
...operational dumping by ships, according to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences' National Research Council, which monitors ocean oil spills. Industrial waste, too, pollutes the waters. Egyptians have long called their port city, Alexandria, the jewel of the Mediterranean, but it has lately earned another reputation as "the outstanding champion of pollution," according to Mifsud. Factories dump waste water into the port's bays and into Lake Maryut, 1 km from the sea. Egypt's government blames the cargo traffic from the Suez Canal and oil tankers from the Persian Gulf. "We not only have to manage Egypt...