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...102nd minute, Princeton headed in a well-placed cross from the left to win the game, shocking the Parents’ Day crowd and handing Harvard its first Ivy League defeat...

Author: By Charlie Cabot, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard Drops Overtime Game to Unranked Tigers | 10/26/2009 | See Source »

...system we currently have that endangers our prosperity and prevents us from creating millions of new jobs. There are going to be those who cynically claim -- make cynical claims that contradict the overwhelming scientific evidence when it comes to climate change, claims whose only purpose is to defeat or delay the change that we know is necessary...

Author: By June Q. Wu | Title: Obama Disses Harvard, Pushes Clean Energy | 10/24/2009 | See Source »

...Crimson hadn’t lost a game by more than a touchdown since a 34-13 defeat at Yale on Nov. 18, 2006. But the players aren’t hanging their heads...

Author: By Scott A. Sherman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Crimson Looks To Run over Rival Princeton | 10/23/2009 | See Source »

...system we currently have that endangers our prosperity and prevents us from creating millions of new jobs. There are going to be those who cynically claim -- make cynical claims that contradict the overwhelming scientific evidence when it comes to climate change, claims whose only purpose is to defeat or delay the change that we know is necessary...

Author: By June Q. Wu | Title: Obama Disses Harvard, Pushes Clean Energy | 10/23/2009 | See Source »

...Maradona, who turns 49 next week and is already a grandfather, is revered at home for leading Argentina to historic victories on the soccer field, particularly winning the 1986 World Cup. That was also the tournament in which he exacted a symbolic revenge for Argentina's defeat by Britain in the 1982 Falklands War by scoring two goals to sink England, the first illegally with a concealed fist that he wryly attributed to "the hand of God", and the second following a sublime run from the halfway line leaving the England defense for dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Argentina's Maradona: A Soccer God Turned Mortal | 10/23/2009 | See Source »

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