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After a dominating 194-106 victory over Princeton and then a 146-72 pounding of Pennsylvania yesterday, the team can now bask in the glory of another Ivy title. The only thing left to conquer is the Eastern Championships, to be held at the end of this month at Brown University. There, the Crimson will have an opportunity to avenge its loss to Yale and grasp the bragging rights of the league...
...insist on portraying Harvard as planning to reduce its fiscal support? First, there is the fact that the FAS must balance a deficit budget and had fired the directors of the only two departments to have expanded--public service and computer services. Second, there is the divide-and-conquer trick of guranteeing "the very successful HAND programs...through this year and into the future" but not PBHA, pitting student organization against student organization...
...year long, Gingrich had been able to hold together his Republican troops, especially the faithful freshmen, largely by arguing that their unity was their best weapon if they were out to conquer the capital. But for many members, there is no larger mission than the assault on abortion rights. Members were growing tired of going along with the Speaker; they were suffering, as majority leader Dick Armey put it, from "greater-good fatigue." They drew the line that night, after 26 hours of floor debate, as the House moved toward a vote on the spending bill. Newt's high command...
...also discussed his impressions of the current John Keats exhibit, the history of the conflict in northern Ireland and the connection between poets of different centuries. He noted the subversive elements of successful Irish poets, and said that their mastery of English allowed them to "conquer the language of the conqueror...
This weekend, Brown and Princeton will compete for an untarnished record. Pennsylvania will travel to New York to face Columbia, Dartmouth will battle Yale and the Crimson will attempt to conquer Cornell in Ithaca on Sunday...