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...system in 1998: pinpoint a formula that would pit the nation's two top-ranked teams against each other in a winner-take-all contest. Since 1902, postseason bowl matchups had been based largely on historic rivalries and conference affiliations. Schools reaped financial windfalls, but the process failed to crown a definitive champion...
Based on its performance thus far, the Crimson will likely be a contender for both the Ivy League crown and the season-ending Howe...
...Siedlecki still left in a storm of alumni and fan dissatisfaction. At the root of his problems, no doubt, was his 4-8 mark against Harvard, including 1-7 in the last eight meetings (although the one win was a 34-13 beating in 2006 that secured an Ivy crown...
...explain motives and circumstances behind the martial law. Having stepped down in 1990 after serving as president of Poland during the transition period, the general published books and gave numerous interviews about the clampdown, forcing Poles to rethink their recent history. "He is a man who bears his crown of thorns with unusual dignity and unusual strength," says Kutz...
...Take literature, for example. Literature is regarded by some as the crown jewel of worthless and inapplicable subjects. But literature’s critics would do well to realize that literature is just as useful a means of gauging the social climate as any social science experiment. Only literary analysis can do what empirical analysis cannot: uncover what people are feeling and how they interact during a certain period in time. Rather than wielding literature’s formidable power of insight, however, academics are often too busy observing topics in the intellectual stratosphere. We are taught what words mean...