Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Prior to the start of the season, people speculated that the Crimson might got a bid to the NCAA tournament. After a shaky start, however, that talk ended as it became clear that Harvard would have to concentrate first on capturing the Ivy crown--which it was unanimously picked to win a pre-season poll...
Next season, when Ivy League seniors like Princeton's Kit Mueller and Harvard's Ralph James graduate, Columbia may very well be a serious contender for the Ivy crown. Rohan graduates only two seniors--Scott Bennett and Steve Livingstone--and retains four members of his current starting five unit...
KING EDWARD VIII by Philip Ziegler (Knopf; $24.95). The great crown-for-love scandal gets a decidedly unromantic treatment in this diplomatic but by no means flattering portrait of the moonstruck Duke of Windsor, the man who gave up his throne for a career as the husband of American-born Wallis Simpson...
...championship, hosted by the Harvard Chess Club at Cambridge's Charles Hotel from December 27-30, attracted 30 four-person squads from colleges and universities across the United States, Canada and Central America to compete for the intercollegiate crown and $4000 in prize money...
...more than just a bank. For 125 years, the Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corp. has been virtually synonymous with the crown colony. Its 42-story headquarters looms over the central financial district, housing what is often referred to as Hong Kong's "real" government. The bank prints 83% of the colony's currency and performs many of the functions of central banks elsewhere. Thus last week's announcement came as a terrible shock: the banking company was moving its legal domicile to London...