Word: crowning
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With the win, Harvard eliminated Brown from the Ivy race and clinched a tie with Princeton (8-3 Ivy) for the Ivy crown. Pennsylvania (7-4 Ivy) was also eliminated from the race when it lost to Columbia, 67-61, Saturday night...
When Secretariat rode home in the 1973 Belmont Stakes to complete horse racing's Triple Crown, it wasn't as much of a victory as a coronation. It was expected, like the Red Sox finding ways to go seven games in the world Series before losing or Olympic swimming champion Janet Evans shredding helpless coeds in the water while at Stanford...
Remember, nobody on this year's Crimson outside of Michel Breistroff (who took last year off) has played for a Harvard team that didn't win the regular-season crown...
JEFF NOON'S FLUORESCENT AND PHANTASMAGORICAL novel Vurt (Crown; 342 pages; $22) isn't quite the equal of Anthony Burgess's A Clockwork Orange, with which it is being compared, but in some ways it comes close. It's good enough in its first 50 or 60 pages of atmosphere setting, all smoke machines and flashing strobes, that the reader blinks, shakes his head and wonders whether Noon can sustain the weirdness. The answer, as shapes become familiar in the fog, lies somewhere between "no," "sort of" and "too mad to matter...
...completing the building's interior. Through some misunderstanding between the two men, the ceiling was built too low. When it came time to install the intricately etched tiles, the top two rows did not fit. The artist never forgave the architect whose miscalculations robbed his mosaic of its crown...