Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Three weeks into the Ivy League football season, Pennsylvania is emerging as a unexpected contender for the Ivy crown, but Princeton still looms on top as the team to beat this year...
...retiring as host of Masterpiece Theatre. For millions of PBS viewers, Cooke was like the guest they always hoped to meet at a party -- charming, informed but never overbearing as he steered them urbanely through such series as Upstairs, Downstairs, I, Claudius and The Jewel in the Crown, discoursing on Edwardian manners, the English public school or life in the sunlit empire...
...Lions (Crown; 349 pages; $25), Terry Anderson claims that North used Waite to deflect attention away from secret arms-for-hostages talks between Washington and Tehran. Waite does not say if he knew of such negotiations or later felt deceived. His memorable take on North is that the gung-ho posters in North's office "seemed adolescent...
Freshman Gina Majmudar lost only one set through the entire tournament and captured the flight one singles crown by besting her teammate, and co-captain, Jill Brenner, 6-4, 7-6. Gina's outstanding success in her first collegiate tournament did not go unnoticed...
Harvard looked so good last Saturday that the temptation is to crown them the Ivy League champs right now. It looked that good. All of a sudden, eyes are raised towards the Princeton (Oct. 23) and Dartmouth (Oct. 30) matchups...