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Second-place Harvard was followed by Stanford, Yale and Duke. Brown, Dartmouth and the University of Pennsylvania were the only three Ivy League schools to fail to crack...
...advance past the first round to pick more than one upset. The exception to the rule is sticking with your favorite teams one round further than what’s reasonable, so God help you if you’re an Alabama State fan taking on No. 1 Duke. Same goes for those who have an unremitting hatred of certain colleges, like Duke or—perhaps more relevant for Harvard kids—Stanford...
...league standards prohibiting Harvard from getting top players, I’m not saying we have to compete with Duke and North Carolina. But we can beat Penn and Princeton. All Ivy League teams play by the same rules—and the Crimson shouldn’t be settling for mediocrity...
...Mansfield’s sophomore year gov tutorial, and he gives you–gasp!–an A-. Now your perfect 4.0 is a less little than immaculate. What is the quintessential overachiever to do? Just aim for an A+ like all of your friends at Duke and Columbia, of course! Oh, wait–Harvard doesn’t give them. FM went on a search to find out the philosophy behind Harvard’s grading policy...
...strong backing from powerful state and federal officials, including Republican Pete Domenici, who is chairman of the Senate Energy Committee. URENCO , an Anglo-Dutch-German consortium, hopes to build in New Mexico as part of Louisiana Energy Services, or LES, an alliance that includes the big American firms Exelon, Duke and Entergy, as well as Cameco, a uranium mining company and Westinghouse, a nuclear fuel manufacturer. If it is built, the plant would produce fuel for nuclear power generation in the U.S. and abroad...