Word: championed
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...tough sport to stay with all four years. I think the fact that we have each other keeps us going.” Harvard will look to carry its momentum to Princeton, N.J. for next weekend’s double-dual meet against Yale and the defending league champion Tigers. All three teams boast undefeated Ivy records. “[Princeton] took our title from us last year, so we want it back,” O’Reilly said. —Staff writer Rebecca A. Compton can be reached at compton@fas.harvard.edu...
...Reagan's willingness to trade weapons for Iranian help in securing the release of U.S. hostages, it will be more difficult to ask for cooperation in the future. Editorialized Bonn's General-Anzeiger: "It will take a long time before the leading power in the West can credibly champion the stringency of joint standards for combating terrorism...
...tough guy who can stand up to these people," he says. "They don't see the man who sits at nights there in the chair and cries over his son." With his son's case coming to a close, McCord has his eye on plans to appoint an official champion for Northern Ireland's victims of violence. It will be a tough job, but he believes a hard...
...pity, because the fest used to discover original movie minds. The honor roll of those who introduced their early work there includes both the big fish of indie cinema (among them Joel and Ethan Coen, Jim Jarmusch, Kevin Smith and Darren Aronofsky) and some of the mainstream's champion swimmers (including Steven Soderbergh, Quentin Tarantino, Bryan Singer and Christopher Nolan...
DIED. Benny (B.P.) Parsons, 65, spirited taxi driver turned NASCAR champion and a fan favorite honored in 1988 as one of the organization's 50 greatest drivers; of lung cancer; in Charlotte, N.C. From 1964 until he retired in 1988 to call races for ESPN and other networks, he made 526 starts--with 283 Top 10 finishes--and memorably won the 1973 NASCAR championship and the 1975 Daytona...