Word: contestation
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Coming into Saturday’s contest, Cornell quarterback Nathan Ford hadn’t taken a sack in the first three games, despite attempting 111 passes in the Big Red’s 3-0 start. Harvard managed to get to Ford twice against 53 pass attempts, the first two sacks Cornell has surrendered on the season. Both sacks came on a second-quarter drive for the Big Red, where captain Matt Curtis dragged down Ford for a seven-yard loss on first down and senior end Peter Ajayi got to him again for an eight-yard loss...
Frustration is building for Harvard men’s water polo. The road-weary Crimson (2-9, 1-3 CWPA) brought a six-game losing streak into the long weekend, hoping to reverse the trend with critical contests against Iona and Fordham on Sunday. Instead, after dropping the games 12-10 and 14-6, respectively, Harvard left as it had arrived, searching for answers in a season that started so well.“We have to get everybody back on the same page,” Harvard coach Erik Farrar said. “We need to get back...
...Such complexities, however, are easily lost in the rapid-fire sound-bite contest that has predictably come to consume the presidential election. We are left instead with emotionally charged claims that mislead as much as they inform...
...still be early October, but the potential Ivy ramifications of this contest make it one not to miss...
...purpose of the Nobel Prize was to recognize exceptional individuals—regardless of nationality—apparently, Engdahl has been keeping score. And although he toned down his statement in light of sharp criticism from Americans and insisted that the prize “is not a contest between nations but an award to individual authors,” his declaration of Europe’s literary hegemony reveals a subtextual but unmistakable nationalism—or at least, regionalism—in the consideration of today’s arts and letters. French president Nicolas Sarkozy...