Word: contestable
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...tailgate. After letting Yale have their pity points, Harvard regained its composure—it’s hard to beat a team over and over again without feeling sorry for them—to tie Yale at 24, and turning the game into the first-ever triple-overtime contest in the Ivy League. When it finally came time to handle the pressure, Yale did what it knows best. It choked. Pumped up and ready to go, the Bulldogs started the first play of overtime with a brilliant and beautiful, um, fumble. While Harvard chose to squeeze some extra excitement...
Late in the game, however, the experienced squad fought back to help Harvard claw its way back into the contest. In the fourth quarter, the Bulldogs were held to a lone field goal. Yale relinquished possession twice on turnovers and once on downs late in the game when the Harvard run defense held tough to stop Spencer twice...
...week later against Brown, Harvard needed a last-minute, length-of-the-field drive to tie the score against the Bears and send the game to overtime in a contest the Crimson evnetually...
...separate state with its own borders, flag and national anthem. Prabhakaran's decision to enforce a boycott of the election by ethnic Tamils in the north and east, who overwhelmingly preferred opposition leader Ranil Wickremesinghe to the hawkish Rajapakse, almost certainly cost Wickremesinghe the presidency in this tightly fought contest. "If Prabhakaran wanted any kind of peace, even peace on his own terms," says Dayan Jayatilleka, a visiting scholar in South Asia studies at Johns Hopkins University, "he wouldn't have sunk Ranil...
...unlucky for the Crimson. The Lions won nine of the last 11 races to pull away with a 160.5-139.5 victory over Harvard, which had not lost a dual meet since the 2003-2004 season. The Columbia meet provided a study in contrasts with the Crimson’s contest against Cornell and Dartmouth the previous weekend. In that meet, Harvard came out slowly to fall behind Cornell, yet regrouped and dominated the second half to score a close victory. Against Columbia, however, the Crimson jumped out to a commanding lead with wins four of the first five events, only...