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This is too important a contest to not make myself abundantly clear. Princeton might be as good at defense as Harvard is at offense. Both units are ranked first statistically in the Ivy League under the total and scoring designations. But Princeton is not as good at offense as Harvard is at defense...
This isn’t the first time that Tribe has gone public with his paintings. In the early 1950s—as a child in San Francisco—he won an art contest and received a bicycle as his prize. But rather than learn to ride the bike, Tribe sold it. It wasn’t until this summer that he moved past training wheels, finally learning “to ride a bike at the ripe...
...beat Fairfield’s Jon Paul Francini—who boasted a 0.97 goals against average entering the game—in overtime earned the three points for Harvard and kept its winning streak alive. Just days later, Fucito played even better, making sure the important Ivy League contest against Brown would last only 90 minutes. With the game tied at 1-1 in the 30th minute, Fucito came all the way out to the right flank to chase down a ball that the Brown defender assumed would be easily within his control and then threaded a cross...
...dispersed and dispossessed, the victim of piling-on by outside forces, and rally those still living outside the city to the cause. Nagin, however, had one advantage that Jefferson lacks: his chief opponents in the mayoral race were white, making it easy for him to portray the contest as a power grab in a demographically shaken "chocolate city," as he so memorably put it. Jefferson's major challengers, on the other hand, are African-American...
...15th's incumbent, Deborah Pryce, is the fourth-ranking member of the House Republican leadership, so popular here that she has not been in a real contest since her first election to the House in 1992 even though her district has trended more Democrat.(She beat George Bush's vote in the district by 10 percentage points in 2004.) But this year, Pryce finds herself in the political fight of her life. So great is the threat that she was forced to begin airing television ads last June, which is unusually early for a seven-term incumbent...