Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...since 1977, when Cornell nabbed the Ivy crown, has Columbia failed to capture at least a share of the league title. This season, either Harvard or Yale is guaranteed to walk away with Ivy honors...
Come Sunday, the Crimson scoring machine will come face-to-face with the Eli shutout machine. Although the result will not decide the Ivy crown--that event will have to wait until Wednesday--it will bring either Harvard or Yale's post-season to an early close...
...money to buy arms. Yamani's dismissal ended a remarkable career. The son of a religious judge in Mecca, Islam's holiest city, Yamani graduated from Cairo University and in 1956 received a degree from Harvard Law School. In 1958 he became a government legal adviser and protege of Crown Prince (later King) Faisal, who named the 32-year-old attorney oil minister in 1962. At that time OPEC, which had been founded only two years earlier, was an obscure group whose members had come together to form a united front against the major oil companies that then controlled world...
...winner this afternoon (1:30 p.m., the Stadium) will have about a one-in-a-million chance at the Ivy crown, while the loser will be mathematically eliminated. Harvard (2-4 overall, 2-2 Ivy) hopes to avoid such a fate...
...read "A Passage to India" and "The Jewel in the Crown." You've seen the movie "Gandhi" twice. You have Indian tapestries on your walls, and your roommates complain about the pervasive scent of incense. You love samosas, lamb curry, and tandoori chicken. And now, you've finally decided that you'd better take some courses on India...