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...Northeastern field hockey team. When the Harvard men's soccer team erupted with two overtime goals against Brown to take the 1994 Ivy Title. When Tim Hill '99 sank a last-second basket to send the Harvard-Penn game into overtime, where the Crimson would avenge its 1994 defeat...
Harvard suffered another close defeat a week later, 17-12 at Penn. The Quakers had 15 more minutes of possession, and running back Jasen Scott torched the Crimson defense for 149 yards...
...Crimson's first formal football game since 1942, 25,000 spectators see Harvard defeat the University of Connecticut...
...stones in hand, is endangered president Jacques Chirac. With its blame-the-immigrants economics, the Front has all but cornered France's far-right vote. But instead of allying with Chirac's conservatives, Le Pen has targeted them. Thursday he issued a list of mainly conservative candidates to defeat. Le Pen's contentiousness may cost Chirac his majority. His conservatives head into Sunday's runoff having netted just 29.9 percent of the vote, with the Socialists, bolstered by a broad leftist coalition, taking 40.6 percent. To keep their jobs, conservatives need not only to woo the Le Pen crowd...
...week since computers became the best chess-playing species on earth, we homo sapiens have proved that we remain world champs in at least one cognitive domain: rationalizing defeat. While Garry Kasparov was spending his post-match press conference accusing IBM of cheating, commentators around the world were finding other ways to minimize Deep Blue's triumph. CHESS, SHMESS! COMPUTERS STILL CAN'T HANDLE THE TOUGH STUFF, said the headline on a Boston Globe article that noted how much trouble machines have understanding a sentence or telling a dog from a cat. Britain's Daily Telegraph observed that computers "cannot...