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Times for the Crimson are anything but tough. The up-and-coming squad looks to contend with fellow powerhouses Brown and Princeton for the Ivy League championship...
...also avoid looking past Penn to an exciting showdown with Duke next Saturday. The Blue Devils (5-1) are ranked sixth in the country, and they should give the Crimson, ranked 19th, an idea of how far it has come and how much farther it has to go to contend for a national championship...
...would enacting term limits shift the balance of power within the federal government towards the President, as many opponents of term limits contend. The turnover in Congress was far higher during the latter part of the 19th century than in the decades since World War II. Yet the 1870s and 1880s were characterized by weak presidents and a dominant Congress, while recent decades have seen the exact opposite. Clearly, no relationship exists between the power of Congress and term limits...
...expensive, and teaching undergraduates will not pay for the entire cost of a graduate education. This is simply a financial reality that all graduate students, including those at universities other than Yale, must reckon with. The situation for teaching assistants at Yale may be especially difficult, as union organizers contend. But the particulars of the situation are not central to the main issue: that the teaching assistants should have the right to unionize...
...Crimson will also have to contend with Ilsa Webeck, Dartmouth's 6-4 senior center. However, in light of the way Harvard shut down Brown's twin towers--Martina Jerant and Chris Yasaitis--the team feels confident it can handle taller players inside...