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...hope that this weekend will be a good, positive starting point for the season and that everyone will get a chance to use the competitive environment to see what they need to work on in the upcoming weeks,” Ungar said.Within the Ivy conference, Columbia, the defending Ivy champion, provides the stoutest competition for the Crimson, but Penn and Princeton will also supply some tough competition for Harvard.Depite the Crimson’s competitiveness at fencing, the outlook remains a bit of a mystery, and this weekend will provide the first glimpse into what looks...
...that after decades of fruitless negotiations with Beijing as part of an attempt to gain some concessions for his homeland, the 15th Dalai Lama may have finally reached the end of his tether. "Mr. Patience has run out of patience," says Robbie Barnett, a professor of Tibetan studies at Columbia University in New York City. "It's really very serious indeed and a major disappointment, though not so much of a surprise. The Chinese must have know this was coming - some of the responsible officials in fact must be very pleased that they have managed to provoke this reaction...
...lost for 10 consecutive games. But in a winner-take-all scenario for the lead in the Ivy League, the Crimson outplayed the Tigers, putting Harvard in a position for its first league title since 1999. The Crimson has 12 points in the Ivy League table, just ahead of Columbia and Princeton with 10 apiece. “We are happy to be in control of our own destiny,” Rhodes said. “We set ourselves up well in the conference. It’s a good position to have.” Harvard continues...
Cole told me she had been working at the Weston, W.V., office of the Philadelphia-based firm, 1.2.1 Direct Response, for a few months to make money for school, mostly selling cable packages. (As it happens, Obama himself had done the same thing during one school year at Columbia University, selling New York Times subscriptions over the phone.) When she saw the anti-Obama script, which linked Obama to bombings at the Pentagon and the Capitol, it bothered...
...records of the Ivy League teams, while remembering that non-conference games don’t count for anything and there is no playoff system in the Ancient Eight.You’ll notice that the only consistent teams in the Ivies right now are Dartmouth and Columbia, and that’s only because they are equally terrible, although—SPOILER ALERT—if you read my picks you’ll realize that they’re really not.As for the rest of the conference, its best team (Harvard) gets equal billing with...