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While the defeat kept Harvard at seven wins prior to Christmas, just as many as it had a year ago, Sullivan said he felt those seven wins were harder to come by. Four of them came on the road and three came at the hands of 2002 NCAA tournament teams...
...overtime victory at home despite four turnovers, a shaky kicking game and costly penalties. But that's how people are viewing the Giants, who come into this matchup winners of four straight, including last week's thriller against the Eagles in which they tried to steal defeat from the clutches of victory and just couldn't do it. Now they're the darlings of the media, who are almost universally predicting an upset of the 49ers, a team that's been locked in as the No. 4 seed for a couple of lackluster weeks now. Giants QB Kerry Collins...
...last time around, the U.S. military's inability to defeat the Scuds turned out to be its biggest failure in the war. In 1991 the U.S. dedicated 2,493 missions to what came to be called the "Great Scud Hunt." But it did not score one confirmable kill against a mobile missile or its launcher in Iraq--though it did destroy what turned out to be a few fuel trucks as well as some East German decoys that looked like the real thing. Scuds caused not only mayhem in Israel during the month the missiles rained down on Tel Aviv...
...Towers is a call not for pre-emptive action, but to find the will and cunning to defeat an insidious foe. It is also, mainly, a thrilling work of film craft...
While Merchant was unsatisfied with the defeat, he was satisfied with the confidence and the experience that the Boston College game provided in terms of big-arena atmosphere—a crucial asset as Harvard seeks a victory on Penn’s famed Palestra floor in the not-to-distant future...