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After the nonconference slate ended, attention turned to the race for the Ivy League title. With perhaps the strongest field in its history, the Ancient Eight had three contenders??all of which won at least 21 games—in Cornell, Princeton, and Harvard. The Crimson cruised in most of its 10 conference wins, with an 82-79 overtime thriller at Yale and a 67-66 comeback at Penn as the only tight contests...
...contenders??from city, county, state, federal, and tribal government agencies—were chosen after several rounds of evaluation by policy experts on the basis of four criteria: novelty, significance, effectiveness and transferability, said Emily C. Kaplan, the competition’s program assistant...
...Each race was faster than the last. The river added a lot of speed to the teams after that,” Bosworth said of the effect of the tide. Though this was the first time out for the Black and White, the Bears, perennial championship contenders??they have taken five national titles in the last ten years—already had a race under their belts. Last week Brown traveled to New Jersey to take three out of five races from Ivy rival Princeton. “Brown, like any great rowing team, is a group...
...South Korean politician widely expected to become one of the country’s leading presidential contenders??and perhaps South Korea’s first woman president—made clear at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum last night what her top priority would be if elected to the nation’s highest office. “I have only one objective,” South Korean National Assembly member Park Geun-hye said. “I am in to save my country.” Park, who chaired South Korea’s conservative...
...professor saying the words, anyone who tells you they’re going to reduce the price of coursepacks is lying. Likewise, I care about teaching fellow quality—a topic which is “advocacy ahoy!” for this gaggle of contenders??but can’t imagine any of the candidates convincing Larry Summers to spend the millions of dollars required to improve it.When it comes right down to it, the race for UC president is a trussed-up high school student council race, and decorating it with an officious Election Commission...