Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Rather than preparing for post-season play in November, the Crimson saw its luck turn for the worse. Harvard lost its final two Ivy League contests, falling first to Dartmouth, 4-2, and then four days later to Brown, 2-1. The Bears went on to capture the league crown...
...already ongoing at the highest levels of the government. Although the King has tried to cling to his throne, senior diplomats in Riyadh expect that he will soon leave the country permanently. This de facto abdication will place authority in the hands of Fahd's half brother, Crown Prince Abdullah, 73, and various members of the royal family are competing for favor under him. Abdullah is a devout Muslim whose attitude toward the U.S. and the West is notably cooler than Fahd...
STEVE CAUTHEN, 36; VERONA, KENTUCKY; former professional jockey In 1978, at 18, Cauthen rode Affirmed to become the youngest--and last--jockey to win the Triple Crown. As Grindstone won the Kentucky Derby on Saturday, however, Cauthen was on the sidelines. One of the sport's most acclaimed prodigies, he retired from racing in 1992 and today is Associate Vice President at Turfway Park in Florence, Kentucky, where his father once worked as a blacksmith and his mother a trainer. Cauthen and his family live on a 300-acre farm where he breeds horses...
After all, Harvard has won seven consecutive games--the team hopes to leave this weekend's twin double-headers against Dartmouth with a division title and a chance at its first Ivy League crown since 1985. Yet the team's student fan base remains a consistent twelve...
...then, ask the press and her subjects, does such an exemplary person have such troubled children, who have already sullied the crown and could even bring it down? Some well-reasoned arguments are suggested here. Elizabeth married the handsome, hot-tempered Prince Philip for love at 20. It wasn't easy for him to walk two steps behind his wife, and Elizabeth hit on a tacit compromise: she would run the monarchy, he would run the family. Elizabeth, pursuing endless duty, was often absent for months at a time, and her children were brought up by nannies with strong wills...