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Speaking of folding like a cheap card table, Yale watched a 17-7 second quarter lead turn into a 24-17 defeat at the hands of Brown in Providence. Bulldog quarterback Alvin Cowan’s 419-yard performance—36 more yards than the Bears gained total—was wasted as barefoot kicker Andrew Sullivan missed three field goals after connecting on his first attempt of the day. Since Ivy League kickers seem to be having enough trouble with their shoes on, I don’t think there’s any reason to be adding...
...going to pick Yale here by three, only because I’m convinced that Princeton will find some way to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory...
This year’s game figures to be no less intense, as Harvard will look to rebound from the 2002 defeat as well as Penn’s 32-24 victory in Cambridge last year...
...only one year after Pan-Arab nationalism's final defeat at Israel's hands, Arafat became the first non-head of government to address the UN General Assembly, and the Arab League anointed the PLO "the sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people," formally transferring responsibility for Palestinian fate into Palestinian hands. And if Arafat's personage became the symbol of this new nationalist voice suddenly recognized in the Arab world as the revolutionary head of state of a stateless people, his mystique was burnished by his uncanny ability to beat the odds...
...From the jaws of defeat...