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...that the team celebrating would be Yale—that might have turned some heads. What at the beginning of the season seemed improbable for a Bulldogs squad that was picked to finish fifth in league preseason polls turned into a reality on Saturday when Yale beat the Crimson 34-13 at Harvard Stadium in front of a sellout crowd...
...whether the cops get their man in the end, collateral damage and legal niceties be damned. Think Steve McQueen as Bullitt pursuing a black Dodge Charger through San Francisco and then, just outside the city, pulling along side to smack the car into a gas station for a pyrotechnic finish. Or Gene Hackman, as detective Popeye Doyle in The French Connection, careering through Brooklyn streets while chasing a villain in an elevated train, smashing cars along...
...much for getting better with age. The Ivy League will be fast and furious this year, and youth is leading the charge. Of the top four finishers last year—Dartmouth, Princeton, Brown, and Harvard—all lost key senior leaders and All-Ivy performers. Youth is widespread, with Cornell boasting two standout sophomores and the Crimson bringing back five second-year players with big-time potential. Young teams will make mistakes, and so will voters: it is impossible to predict a sure Ivy Champion. A veteran Dartmouth squad was a unanimous choice last year...
...star guard and co-captain Jessica Holsey ’06 to a season-ending concussion and given up a game-winning three-pointer to Brown with 0.4 seconds left. Worst of all, Harvard ended the season fourth in the Ivy League standings—hardly a customary finish for one of Delaney-Smith’s teams.“It felt really weird, and it was a really hard experience not to have your destiny in your own hands,” junior guard Lindsay Hallion said. “Especially when you feel like you should...
...before McCandless had a chance to finish hanging all the paintings, Daniel Ortega of the leftist Sandinista Front was elected president on November 5, turning McCandless' retirement plans upside down. "I'm outta here; I'm gone," said the North Carolinian. "It wasn't supposed to happen like this; it's like someone rose from the dead...