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Penn, the co-defending Ivy champs, expected to face a difficult season after losing a strong senior class. I’m guessing, though, that it didn’t expect to be winless in its first three games. Nor could it have foreseen only getting a draw, at home, against a team that finished 1-15 last year (Here’s to you, Cornell). Midfielders Alex Takakuwa and Christian Barreiro have done well to score six goals apiece, but the defense has leaked in more goals (22) than any other team in the conference...
...have all shown they are capable of winning the league, so the title will largely come down to how the teams fare against each other. Dartmouth still has to contend with away fixtures in Providence and Cambridge. Brown has already lost to Harvard and faces a difficult game this weekend against a resurgent Cornell squad...
Regardless of who wins the Ivy crown it appears likely that all three teams, barring monumental collapse, will make the NCAA tournament. No. 11 Harvard, No. 15 Dartmouth, and No. 18 Brown have all played difficult non-conference schedules and the tournament committee will look favorably upon the teams’ overall records (All three have a winning percentage above...
Aside from their potential use as a means of conducting electricity, the nanowires may serve to localize functionality at a particular point within the nanostructure, said Ping Xie, a postdoctoral fellow and author. With one-dimensional nanowires, it is currently difficult to determine where activity is concentrated within the linear wire...
...confident that's what's happening right here at this extraordinary institution. And if you will join us in what is sure to be a difficult fight in the months and years ahead, I am confident that all of America is going to be pulling in one direction to make sure that we are the energy leader that we need...