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...overall tenor of the board meeting was calm, in stark contrast to the partisan wrangling during the Florida recount in last fall’s presidential election. Attorneys for the three petitioning candidates asked many of the same questions and made similar comments to the board...
...works through consensus, de facto leaders like Ben McKean ’02 spearheaded a rigorous preparatory program. Everything was ready; the week’s worth of food and water, sleeping bags and other supplies were stored in a sympathetic student organization’s basement headquarters. Contrast this to the 1969 mob takeover of University Hall, where students entered the building with few provisions save for bullhorns and moxy...
More importantly, Rose made no mistakes for the second week in a row. He threw no interceptions, and only took one sack against a team that led the league in sacks. Contrast his performance to that of Penn's Gavin Hoffman, who uncharacteristically was sacked four times...
Saturday's battle was fundamentally a contrast in strengths. Harvard entered the game with the best rushing offense in the league (averaging 189 yards a game), while Penn possessed the best rushing defense in the league and in the country (allowing only 43 yards a game). Harvard boasted the league's best pass efficiency offense going into today's contest and Penn had the league's best pass efficiency defense. Harvard had scored at least four touchdowns in each game this season, and Penn had not given up more than 20 points in any game...
...drama in the third period was a stark contrast to the first frame, in which neither team scored...