Word: contestable
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...Harvard hockey teams competed at the Beanpot Hockey Tournament earlier this week, teams of hungry College students stuffed their faces to qualify for a chance to defend Harvard against teams from four other Boston-area universities in Qdoba’s Fifth Annual Rice and Bean Pot burrito eating contest last night. A total of 14 teams, made up of four students each, wolfed down four of Qdoba’s 18-ounce vegetarian burritos in hopes of landing a place in the final round of the contest next Tuesday. The fastest team in Tuesday’s final round...
...what became known as the Round Table talks, which resulted in an agreement to hold semi-free elections that summer. The results of these elections favored Solidarity’s candidates even more than its own leaders had expected; of the available seats, Solidarity won nearly every single contest. To many observers, it seemed as though Poland would move rapidly toward capitalism and democracy...
...sauteed greens topped with local apples and organic tofu. A panel of Harvard University Dining Services Managers and executives, as well as students in attendance, pronounced Alexandra Perloff-Giles ’11 and Madeleine E. Raffel ’11 the winners of the contest. The event’s top dishes will be featured in Winthrop’s Chef’s Choice nights. Perloff-Giles is also Crimson staff writer, and Raffel is a Crimson business editor. Before the cooking began, an unruffled contestant Lillian L. Erlinger ’10 rattled off her team?...
...China was swift to condemn the ban as protectionist. The China Daily, the official government newspaper, reported that Beijing may contest India's measure by taking the matter to the Dispute Settlement Body of the World Trade Organization (WTO). The newspaper cited WTO rules against "illegal trade barriers and punitive measures at a time when protectionism is growing amid the global economic recession...
...punch.And don’t forget one thing—this will be played at the Palestra, which still packs a wallop in the Ivy League. Columbia won both its games last weekend in front of a raucous crowd of its own, and they may struggle in this road contest. Penn 63, Columbia 61CORNELL at PRINCETONOne thing’s for sure about Princeton: this team has a kid who can shoot the leather of a basketball in freshman Doug Davis. The frontrunner for Ivy Rookie of the Year, Davis is averaging 13.7 points per game, and is coming...