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Shouldn’t Edwards and Everett and Fitzpatrick have the same chance to tell kids in the Class of 2055 at their 50th reunion that they finished 10-0 in the regular season and then won out over two or three schools to retain the Division 1-AA crown...
...wasn’t supposed to be this easy. After the build-up for the biggest Ivy showdown since 2001 faded away, the Harvard football team stormed Franklin Field Saturday and left no doubt who deserves to wear the 2004 Ivy crown...
...prizes loyalty above all things. In the House, DeMint voted to give the President the authority to conduct fast-track trade negotiations with foreign countries, but only after extracting a list of concessions to protect South Carolina's textile industry. He also voted against one of Bush's legislative crown jewels, the Medicare prescription-drug benefit, worried that it was too costly. And for a former adman, he had a couple of badly tone-deaf moments on the campaign trail, suggesting that gays and unmarried mothers should be forbidden to be teachers. He later apologized...
...Back in the mid-'90s, a similar idea called "push technology" briefly wore the buzzword crown. The notion was that, instead of having to reach out to a plethora of newspapers, TV channels and websites, news consumers could customize information that would be "pushed" across their computer screens all day. But the early push advocates stumbled, victims of poor management, clunky technology and their own hype. With RSS, though, it seems like the push dream has finally arrived. "We're seeing the TiVo-ization of news," says Dave Sifry, referring to the recordable TV service that allows viewers to pick...
...this weekend Penn arrives in Cambridge with an outside shot at the Ivy League crown, and it must defeat the Crimson to have any chance at the title. Since falling to Harvard on Oct. 15, Penn has gone 7-2, and last weekend, the surging Quakers stunned Ivy League co-leader Cornell...