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...your armed forces. (No fun: the U.S. always wins.) There's the number of medals won at the Olympic Games, preferably weighted by population size (which usually makes Australia top nation). Or-very fashionable in Asia these days-you can look at the size of your tallest building, a contest in which Taiwan has just nosed ahead of Malaysia. Or you can dwell on the relative strength of your currency. Which is why you might expect American self-esteem to be in decline, for the dollar has fallen 24% against the euro since the beginning of 2003, touching a record...
...thought that some people might know me but not what I design," he says. "I choose to express myself through my architecture." His indifference to the jostling for position that often defines the architecture game is so pronounced that Taniguchi initially ruled himself out of the high-profile contest to refashion MOMA. He had never participated in a competition, and he was in no hurry to start. "I prefer to design for clients, on projects with a high likelihood of getting built," he says, "not in hypothetical exercises against other architects...
Harvard had 13 turnovers in the first half, but limited itself to just six more in the second. The Crimson also won the battle on the boards, holding a 41-35 advantage on the contest. Sophomore center Brian Cusworth and junior forward Matt Stehle—who played the game with a broken nose—led the charge, bringing down 13 and 10, respectively. Cusworth scored 15 points and Stehle added 13, as they both capped off double-digit nights...
...suddenly on the morning of the contest, The Game was cancelled. According to an extra edition of the Yale Daily News, 16 football players had come down with gonorrhea contracted from three Yale cheerleaders in a party after the Brown game six weeks earlier. Harvard had won by forfeit...
...fifty thousand who watched the Harvard-Yale contest in the Bowl on November 22, 1969 know that The Game was, indeed, not cancelled. By that time of the afternoon, many of them realized that the Yalie Daily extra was not produced by Eli staffers, but by members of The Harvard Crimson aiming to shake the already nervous New Haven community...