Word: facto
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...beat,” he added.Harvard has seen title dreams ruined at Franklin Field before, a field that has been extremely unfriendly to Crimson teams. In 2002, with ESPN’s College Gameday in town, Harvard fell hard to a Penn team in a de facto championship game.The Crimson did bounce back two years later, clinching the Ivy title with a 31-10 win in 2004 that also marked the first time Harvard had won in Philadelphia since 1980.But, as Penn’s struggles this season indicate, the league has changed significantly in the last decade...
...Bois Institute’s de facto gallery room is a small, oddly shaped space near the main reception area on floor 3R, plastered wall-to-wall with black-and-white photographs taken by Indian photographer Sunil Gupta during the “Looking for Langston” film shoot...
...insurgency - by expanding Sunni power and cracking down on the Shi'ite militias terrorizing Sunni communities - U.S. forces find themselves fighting on two fronts. Mounting tension between Arabs and Kurds over the fate of the northern city of Kirkuk, the oil town coveted by the Kurds for the de facto state they're creating in the north, suggests that this could still get even more complicated...
...particular schools: Questions range from the basic to the blunt. ThickEnvelope, for example, asks clients: "Would you say that your mother or father is a nationally recognized, very important person or well-known celebrity?"What the DP doesn't do, but could have, is pay for some ex-post-facto predicting, checking to see if the sites are any good at guessing whether current Penn students would be admitted to the school...
...Jewish state), Hamas would be willing to sign a truce with Israel lasting up to 10 years and honor past peace accords that Palestinians signed with Israel. While prospects for changing Hamas's position as a movement are slim, Abbas is hoping to persuade it to make a de facto gesture of recognition by joining a government that accepts previous Palestinian agreements with the Jewish state. The U.S. and Europe have made the renunciation of violence and recognition of Israel preconditions for lifting their punishing sanctions on the Palestinian territories...