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This year, homebound Harvard students will contend with these and yet another adversary—a potentially paralyzing snowstorm...
...Crimson will need to contend with a Holy Cross half-court offense that is similar to those run by NBA teams. To do so, Harvard will utilize the same combination of zone and man-to-man defense which slowed the Crusaders last year...
...Crimson will also need to contend with the Crusaders’ tremendous size advantage...
...that would dress up his dictatorship in civilian clothes. What he got was the opposite: an angry rabble of political enemies in the 342-seat National Assembly. The Pakistan Muslim League, which was to carry out Musharraf's bidding, fell way short of a majority. Suddenly, he had to contend with wrathful, anti-American clergymen and wily old pols from the traditional parties that he had tried to crush. Everybody was itching for a fight...
...year ago at this time, it was Brown, not Yale, that was expected to contend with Penn and Princeton for the Ivy title. Last year the media projected the Bears to finish second and, despite having the most prolific scorer in the league in Hunt, they barely managed to come in fourth. The reason? Defense, or lack thereof. Brown’s was the second-worst unit in the league ... Forte’s quick progression at point guard was a pleasant surprise for Brown a year ago. In some games, he was a steadier scoring option than even Hunt...