Word: championed
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...championship repeat was just not in the cards. The Harvard fencing team entered the season as the unquestioned defending national champion, but came away with a sixth-place finish at the year-end NCAA Championships in Madison, N.J. this weekend. Senior captain Tim Hagamen led seven All-Americans for the Crimson with an individual title in the sabre. The finish is the second best in school history after last year’s national championship season. After regional competition, Harvard qualified just nine fencers for nationals, a number mathematically insufficient to allow the team to repeat. But two at-large...
...What's your role? I look upon myself as a champion or leader to carry out [those] fundamental reforms, to make it possible to hand over [power to] a government elected on the basis of a free, fair election. The objective is strengthening Bangladesh's democratic order...
...controversial past, however, has not prevented Gaydamak from establishing high-level business and political contacts inside Israel and endearing himself to the Israeli public. Where the government stumbled, he acted and now looks like a champion of the people compared to the current leaders. Gaydamak may or may not assume a political role or rank, but, largely thanks to an unpopular prime minister and those around him, he might just determine who gets to run Israel...
...division structures are the same as baseball’s, putting the Crimson in a division with Yale, Brown, and Dartmouth. Defending champion Princeton, last year’s runner-up Cornell, Columbia, and Penn make up the other division. At the end of the season, the winners of each division will meet in a best-of-three series to determine the league champion and winner of its NCAA berth...
...example, the Crimson was swept in its first two league games last season at Cornell. That gave Harvard the same amount of losses after one weekend as eventual league champion Princeton would end up with, meaning the Crimson had to win the rest of its league games to finish with the same record as the league champions...