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...battle of the New York Ivies, Cornell would appear to be the heavy favorite. Senior quarterback Nathan Ford leads the Ancient Eight’s top passing offense into Manhattan after a confidence-building rout over Dartmouth the Doormat, which also played the victim in Columbia’s lone win of the season...
...living in her considerable shadow. Ciccone, an artist and interior decorator, served stints as Madonna's backup dancer, her "dresser" (a role in which his tasks included wiping sweat from her sometimes-naked body) and later as her designer. But mostly, by his telling, he functioned as her doormat. And, occasionally, her garbage can (one of his chores was allowing his sister to spit cough drops into his palm). "I find no excuse for Madonna's grossly unfair treatment of me," he acknowledges. She jilts him repeatedly - summoning him to New York and then reneging on her offer...
...Colonel Gaddafi must realize our country isn't a doormat upon which a leader, whether terrorist or not, can come to wipe off the blood of his crimes," fumed Rama Yade, the secretary of state for foreign affairs and human rights in Sarkozy's own government, to the daily Le Parisien. Yade noted the Libyan regime's maintenance of police state to repress suspected political opposition left her decidedly "not happy about this visit" - one that begins, she pointed out "on International Human Rights Day". She wasn't the only one to protest Sarkozy's decision to host Gaddafi...
...bumped his season total to six—two short of the Harvard single-season record—and his career total to 14, just one shy of the 59-year-old school record held by Ken O’Donnell ’49. With perennial doormat Dartmouth in town next weekend, be sure to keep an eye on number two, arms open, waiting to make history. —Staff writer Madeleine I. Shapiro can be reached at mshapiro@fas.harvard.edu...
Last year, the Ivy League dominated the head-to-head encounters, posting a combined 13-4 record—two of those losses were by doormat Dartmouth—and a 7-1 mark vs. the Patriot League at home. This season, it’s already a different story. Through two weeks, Ivy squads are 3-5 against their non-conference nemeses, and 1-3 at home...