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Columbia (12-9, 3-5 Ivy) enters Lavietes Pavilion hoping to pick up the shattered pieces of a once-promising season. Since opening the league season at 3-1 and leading some to speculate that second-year coach Joe Jones had the Lions poised to contend for the championship, Columbia has lost four straight games to drop just a half game above last-place Dartmouth...
...technical limitations and legal wrangling. The European Commission is involved in a legal battle with Germany, which wants the right to revise its national emissions allocation plan in the future, and with Britain, which wants to increase the allotted emissions in a plan approved last year. Green groups contend that European governments have bowed to industry pressure by distributing too many emissions permits...
Perhaps freshness is what Harvard needs coming into the final stretch of the season. The Crimson has much to look forward to in these next few weeks: a rematch with No. 1 Boston College on Monday, an opportunity to contend for a second consecutive ECAC championship, and a potential NCAA tournament...
...course, the critics haven’t been silent either. They weren’t too enamored of Reid’s performance in her new film Alone in the Dark, where she plays a brilliant anthropologist forced to contend with evil demons intent on world domination. The role represents a break from the starlet’s standard parts in sex comedies like Van Wilder—and Reid suggests her sexpot days may be numbered...
Defensively, the Crimson must contend with a trio of Bears who combine for 40.7 points per game—65 percent of the Brown offense...