Word: contestable
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...have netted just one victory since mid-November, a string of 17 games. Meanwhile, Harvard sits in a fourth-place tie with Dartmouth in the ECAC standings, and just six league games remain before the postseason tournament. The Crimson split last weekend’s home contest, beating Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 3-1 but losing 2-1 to Union the following night. “We’re disappointed with [that] loss,” said Harvard coach Ted Donato ’91, “and I don’t think we played that poorly?...
...turn this into a five- or six-win Ivy season.That surge, however, won’t start Friday night in Ithaca. The Big Red (7-11, 2-2) is an extremely dangerous team that is one Dragutin Kravic prayer from being 3-1 in league play.Cornell takes the contest with a comfortable three-possession cushion.YALE AT PENNIt’s easily the Game of the Year to this point.If the Quakers hold serve at home, that means that Penn’s trips to New Haven and Cambridge are must wins for the Bulldogs and Crimson. If the Bulldogs pull...
...junior shooting guard Jim Goffredo into the team scoring lead, that strategy might well be revised. Goffredo has torched the Ivy League thus far, putting up 33 points in the opener against Dartmouth and 30 last weekend at Brown, and is now averaging a robust 23.5 points per league contest, 4.5 more than preseason Player of the Year favorite Ibrahim Jaaber of Penn. While there is evidence that the rest of the league was still unsure of the 6’1 guard’s offensive abilities heading into last Saturday, an 8-of-10 performance from downtown against...
...They will have a leadership contest in the Liberal Party, and he is one of the names of people put forward as a possible person contending,” said Gregory Albo, professor of political science at York University in Toronto, Canada...
...This week, however, Louisiana's lieutenant governor Mitch Landrieu-a Democrat whose father served two terms as mayor of New Orleans-told supporters privately that he would return home from Baton Rouge to contest Nagin. That's bad news for Nagin because the Landrieus-including both Mitch and his sister, U.S. Senator Mary Landrieu-have built a formidable political dynasty in Orleans Parish since the 1970s when Moon Landrieu served as the city's desegregationist mayor. During the aftermath of Katrina, while the mayor was struggling with the woes inside the Superdome, Mitch was acting like a macho...