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...With the four teams that split their first two Ivy contests going head-to-head on Saturday, the league has created a de facto “losers bracket” where the victors stay alive and the vanquished start planning for next season. Princeton, which has lost its last two contests, travels to Boston to take on Harvard, which is fresh off a 24-17 rebound win over Lafayette, and Brown ventures to Ithaca, N.Y. to meet Cornell...
...torn in the heavily fortified frontline separating Indian and Pakistani forces in the Himalayan territory. The nuclear-armed neighbors have been locked in conflict over Kashmir since 1947, but on Tuesday Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf eased tensions by offering to open the Line of the Control-the de facto border-so that Kashmiris on both sides can help their relatives harmed by the quake...
Only once in four years has either side not entered the de facto Ivy Championship game with a perfect 5-0 record—Harvard was 3-2 in 2003 after an injury to then-junior quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick derailed the Crimson’s hopes of nabbing its second league crown in three years...
...espa?ol se ha convertido en el segundo idioma de facto en EE.UU., el estilo Nuevo Latino ha tomado su lugar en la alta cocina, los sonidos del rock en espa?ol y reggaeton se han infiltrado en las listas de popularidad y los latinos no s?lo juegan en las grandes ligas sino que tambi?n administran sus equipos. Pero como cualquier otro grupo inmigrante que ha influido en la cultura estadounidense antes de establecer por completo su poder econ?mico y pol?tico, los 41.3 millones de hispanos s?lo est?n calentando motores. Aunque tienen un poder adquisitivo de 600,000 millones, reci?n empiezan...
Spanish has become the U.S.'s de facto second language, Nuevo Latino has taken its rightful place in haute cuisine, the sounds of rock en Espa?ol and reggaeton have filtered up the charts, and Latinos not only star on but own and manage major league baseball teams. But like any immigrant group that has shaped mainstream U.S. culture before fully asserting its economic or political power, the nation's 41.3 million Hispanics are just getting warmed up. While they command nearly $600 billion in buying power, they are only starting to attract the marketing attention on Madison Avenue that they...