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...only the Ivy League football season was 13 weeks long. Because if the Crimson (4-2 Ivy League, 4-5 overall) had a few more games on its schedule, it could have made a serious run at the Ivy title. After dropping its first four out of five games, the Crimson has rebounded by winning its last three out of four. A victory in The Game would make Harvard's resurgence even sweeter...
September 23: In its first home game of the season, the Crimson surprises Holy Cross by taking a 17-10 lead in the third quarter...
October 7: Quicker than you can say, "Welcome to Harvard Stadium," the visiting Lehigh Engineers score 28 unanswered points in the first nine minutes of the game. Lehigh quarter-back Todd Brunner is unconscious, tossing four touchdown passes...
...Brazil's most popular television variety-show hosts, last week proclaimed himself a candidate. The startling announcement might have seemed laughable -- were Santos' challenge not so serious to the three leading contenders. If none of the candidates gets an absolute majority, the two leading candidates go forward from the first round of balloting on Nov. 15 to the runoff vote on Dec. 17. Within two days of Santos' announcement, newspaper polls showed the upstart candidate alternately in first and second place -- meaning he has a shot at making the final...
Still, Santos faces an uphill battle. His candidacy first must receive official confirmation by the Superior Electoral Tribunal. Even if Santos is allowed to run, his name will not appear on the ballot. He must educate Brazilian voters to mark the box labeled Armando Correa, an evangelist who stepped aside for Santos as the candidate of the tiny Municipalist Party, which fields many evangelist candidates. That may prove a difficult lesson to teach in a country with a high degree of illiteracy...