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At 0-3, Harvard was reeling. But over the next month, the Crimson showed enough character to make itself a legitimate contender for the Ivy championship.
And if the presupposed Republican contender Texas Governor George W. Bush is elected, bad blood from his father's presidential tenure could spoil another Greenspan term.
With only three seniors and 10 freshmen on a roster of 26 players, the Crimson began a difficult ascent this season in an effort to reclaim Harvard's status as a national contender.
Although Jackson was not the first black presidential candidate--Frederick Douglas managed to secure a single delegate at the Republican convention of 1888--he was the first serious contender.
President B. J. Habibie?s Golkar party ? the traditional representative of the military and the Suharto dictatorship ?- is expected to fare poorly at the polls, although the parliamentary system is stacked in its favor. The leading opposition contender ? way ahead in the small number of ballots counted ? is Megawati Sukarnoputri...