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That patient philosophy--and the magic of big playmaking--is paying off. In consecutive heart-stopping midseason games that made believers out of cynics, the Bears came back from deficits of 15 points to defeat the 49ers and 14 points to best the Browns--both in overtime, both on interceptions by safety Mark Brown. "The way we won those was an eye-opener for the whole team," says cornerback R.W. McQuarters. "It was proof we could set our sights high." In the locker room, those big victories combined with the team's underdog status to keep spirits afloat. Says quarterback...
...matter-of-fact resilience displayed by the Harvard men’s basketball team Saturday night—first in forgetting a heartbreaking defeat to Princeton the night before, then in overcoming a 14-0 second-half run by Penn—is exactly what the junior point guard has always predicted would be the proof that Harvard had finally come...
...Harvard women’s basketball team became the second Ivy victim of surprising Princeton at the Tigers’ Jadwin Gymnasium on Friday night in a 59-55 defeat...
Princeton did not defeat a team ranked in the top 140 of the RPI, although it did drop a close contest to No. 4 Maryland after leading by 15 in the second half...
...things Ariel Sharon can usually count on to make his life easier: Yasser Arafat's knack for snatching defeat from the jaws of victory; and the fact that Arafat's radical Islamic opposition shares the Israeli leader's distaste for the Oslo peace process. Sharon, a month after declaring Arafat "irrelevant" and trying in vain to convince the U.S. to do the same, nearly found himself in the uncomfortable position of having to renew political negotiations with Arafat before two incidents saved him. First, a boatload of weapons apparently meant for the Palestinian authority was intercepted by the Israelis. Then...