Word: championed
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...regular gig. So I’m following up incorrect with unpopular. Now, there’s no grace period, because although it’s still September, this is likely the most important weekend of the Ivy slate, ripe with evenly-matched rivalry games. The reigning league champion (Brown) and the squad it unseated (Harvard) meet in their annual early-autumn thriller. And the other member of the Ivies’ triumvirate, Penn, clashes with local rival Villanova in a crucial test of just how much it has recovered from last year’s .500 season...
...President Bush did his best at the U.N. to paint the U.S. as a friend of the Arab world's huddled masses. But events in Iraq, in the Palestinian territories and in Lebanon all have dampened prospects that those huddled masses will accept the President as their champion...
With his first official visit to China scheduled for this week, U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson has been at pains to ease frictions between the world's two largest trading partners. Despite its ballooning trade deficit with China and the loss of American manufacturing jobs, the U.S. remains a champion of open markets, Paulson said in a speech last Wednesday, noting: "Protectionist policies do not work and the collateral damage from these policies is high. We will not heed the siren songs of protectionism and isolationism...
...Gilmore said. “They’re a talented team, but I think they did an excellent job of timing their blitzes. And they did a good job of mixing them up.”Next week Harvard faces a tougher test in 2005 Ivy League champion Brown, who will miss graduated running back Nick Hartigan, last year’s Ivy League Player of the Year. The Bears will be ready to avenge their double-overtime loss, their only failure in league play last season. —Staff writer Madeleine I. Shapiro can be reached...
...certainly a lot smarter. “It was a great learning experience for our team,” senior Sarah Cebron said. “We definitely improved as the weekend went on.” On Friday night, the Crimson (2-4) was swept by eventual tournament champion Cal State Northridge before twice falling in three straight on Saturday to tournament host San Jose State and Utah Valley State. Junior co-captain Suzie Trimble was named to the All-Tournament team, finishing the weekend with 22 kills. Harvard will continue its preseason tomorrow at New Hampshire in preparation...