Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Defense Secretary, Caspar Weinberger, visited the Middle East last week, carrying with him a sheaf of proposals aimed at strengthening Washington's ties with moderate Arab states. His main port of call was Saudi Arabia, where he spent four days in talks with the influential Crown Prince Fahd, Defense Minister Prince Sultan and Foreign Minister Prince Saud al Faisal. By the time Weinberger left the country, after a negotiating session that lasted almost all night, the principal mystery was why it had taken him and the Saudis so long to agree to so little...
...Crimson can turn back the Big Red, Kleinfelder said, then the team will be seeded fifth in next week's Ivy League Tournament. In any case, the team, now only 1-4 in the Ivies and 2-19 overall, can still take the League crown if they pull if all together and win the tournament...
...course, it would have been mathematically possible: Harvard finally bests Princeton and Penn, back-to-back in one weekend and makes a serious run for the Ivy crown...
...fourth-place finish in this year's Beanpot marks the third straight year that the previous champion has dropped all the way to fourth in the following tourney. Boston University nabbed the title in '78 and slumped to last the next year, as Northeastern took its first-ever Beanpot crown. Last season, the Huskies returned to their Beanpot norm--the cellar--and Harvard took home the beans. If you believe in tradition, you may want to get some money down on B.U.--this year's winner of the silver 'Pot--taking the big fall...
Most of New England will be able to peek into the IAB today to see if the men's basketball team is serious about making a run for the Ivy crown...