Word: championed
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...Crimson will begin Ivy League competition against defending champion Penn...
British playwright Alan Ayckbourn has long been the theater's champion daredevil, a man who never saw a stage stunt he wouldn't tackle. One of his early works, The Norman Conquests, was a cycle of three plays that recounted the events of a weekend from three different parts of the same house. One Ayckbourn play moves backward in time. Another conflates all the action in a house, from living room to attic, into a single stage space. His ingenious, nearly unstageable Intimate Exchanges has 16 permutations, depending on the choices made by characters at key points in the action...
Edwards and Okoye belong to an extensive list of athletes who came close to wearing crimson. This history is largely anecdotal and has accumulated over generations. It begins with James Connolly, the first modern Olympic champion, who left Harvard to compete in the 1896 Athens Olympics. The chronicle continues today with the likes of Frank Ben-Eze who rescinded his commitment to play basketball at Harvard and, instead, chose Davidson...
...weeks is even longer, and the days before the conference served up events that could yet redraw Britain's political landscape. Brown was regarded as a skillful and successful Finance Minister in the Blair years, when he positioned Labour as a champion of free markets. In Manchester he took a new tack. "The continuing market turbulence shows why we need a new settlement for our times," he said, announcing proposals to "rebuild the world financial system." That's a massive ambition for a man struggling to control his own party, but the U.S. pollster Stan Greenberg, in Manchester...
...against 15 other schools, including Princeton, Columbia, Brown, and Dartmouth. The team was led, once again, by freshman Christine Cho (73-77-150). Cho, who tied for first in the Dartmouth Invitational last weekend, finished the tournament in third place.Harvard came into the weekend as the defending Ivy League champions, but also well aware of its history in the competition. “We were a little daunted by the fact that last year we came into the tournament thinking we had a chance to win and ended up taking third,” junior Sarah Harvey...