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Meanwhile, No. 1 Nebraska (8-0) increased its lead in the AP poll with a 69-7 win over Oklahoma--the worst defeat in Sooners' history. The Huskers are heavy favorites to win the Big 12 and play in the Orange Bowl--the bowl alliance's top game...
Then it all came unraveled as Dartmouth exploded for three goals in the second half to hand the Crimson (6-5-9, 2-2-2) its second and most critical Ivy loss of the year. The defeat takes Harvard out of contention for first place...
...shorthand for a kind of collaboration forbidden under the law: a party and its candidates are not allowed to direct outside groups to take action on their behalf--and that includes making ads. In addition, any ads paid for by these groups cannot explicitly advocate the election or defeat of a candidate, even if they praise or trash the candidate in other ways. As long as organizations obey these technicalities, they don't have to disclose their activities publicly and can spend an unlimited amount of money on campaigns...
...their very different ways, each of the Big Three of modern Japanese literature--Yukio Mishima, Yasunari Kawabata and Junichiro Tanizaki--devoted himself to commemorating aspects of an older, purer Japan they all felt would wither after their country's defeat in World War II. That left their postwar successors, most notably Haruki Murakami, to record the ghosts and vacant lots of a land whose spirit seemed to have vanished, leaving a soulless, synthetic wasteland of Dunkin' Donuts parlors, automated fashion victims and cinder-block abortion clinics...
Northeastern took a commanding 3-0 halftime lead and never allowed Harvard back in the game. The loss--Harvard's fifth blanking of the year--was the Crimson's second straight defeat and ensured a sub-.500 season...