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...motored by All-Ivy guard Eric Flato, a little-engine type who can shoot, pass, and D up. But when opposing teams stick a long, physical defender on Flato—Jaaber held him to 11 points in the teams’ second meeting last season, eliminating Yale from contention??who is going to put up the points that push the Bulldogs to key road victories down the stretch? 4. PENNDon’t be surprised if the Quakers just go out and win the thing again, although they will be understaffed. Penn’s best remaining...

Author: By Jonathan Lehman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: BASKETBALL '07: IN LEHMAN'S TERMS: Around the Ivies | 11/13/2007 | See Source »

...Staff argues Harvard should not be singled out because its flirtations with Hitler were “not uncommon to the interwar period.” We’re not sure what is more appalling about this contention??the unconscionable attempt to deflect responsibility or the reasonings’ laughable intellectual laziness. “Everyone was doing it” did not work on the playground and it certainly isn’t effective when confronted with proof that this newspaper and this University openly espoused the twentieth century’s most pernicious ideas...

Author: By Noah Oppenheim and Josh H. Simon, S | Title: Staff's defense of Harvard's Nazi sympathies offensive | 11/22/2004 | See Source »

...second major point of contention??the listing of the target artists in alphabetical order rather than by bid preference—some council members said they were uncomfortable with the HCC’s resulting autonomy...

Author: By Evan M. Vittor, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Concert Plans Move Forward | 9/20/2004 | See Source »

This leads us to our second contention??the “backward” practices of forced marriages and sexual abuse are certainly not Islamic, though they are bigotedly associated with Islam. There are many nations under many creeds wherein the treatment of women is questionable. This is not an inherent trait of the Muslim religion. And portraying it as such is, in a word, prejudiced...

Author: By Nura A. Hossainzadeh, Hebah M. Ismail, and Priscilla J. Orta, S | Title: Column Rehashes Stereotypes of Islam | 12/9/2002 | See Source »

...right for Harvard, besides beating Columbia. The top 12 teams in the current NFHCA poll appear to be locks. Three spots will go to the Big East champion and the winners of two play-in games. That leaves one spot for about five teams in serious contention??BC, Central Michigan, Iowa, Harvard and William & Mary. The Crimson will need BC to win the Big East, all the other four teams to do absolutely nothing to distinguish themselves in their conference tournaments and no other surprises in conference tournaments across the nation to have a chance. In other words...

Author: By David R. De remer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Bubble Watch: As postseason nears, Harvard’s fall teams hope selection committees smile on them | 11/7/2002 | See Source »

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