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...each has three touchdowns. You won’t find too many Ivy League teams with a deep enough secondary to cover both effectively.Cornell has been a major disappointment, allowing 76 points in its last two games, but the Big Red’s early winning streak had fluke written all over it–Cornell outscored its first three opponents by just five total points.Prediction: Brown 21, Cornell 13DARTMOUTH (0-5, 0-2 Ivy) AT COLUMBIA (0-5, 0-2 Ivy)If I may quote something I wrote in this space two weeks...

Author: By Loren Amor, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: AROUND THE IVIES: Road to Ivy Title Must Be Righted | 10/23/2008 | See Source »

...matter who she is playing with or against, she plays her own game. Her game is definitely more mature than her freshman status.”Still, the most important thing for the Crimson was proving that last year’s league championship was not a fluke result. Defeating its toughest Ivy opponent on its home course for the first time ever certainly helps.“Beating them showed we have what it takes, and that we can beat them on any course,” Kabasakalis said.—Staff writer Jay M. Cohen...

Author: By Jay M. Cohen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Frosh Leads Victory Charge | 9/21/2008 | See Source »

...Britain, when you achieve, you're not supposed to really feel proud about it. Or if you are, you're supposed to keep it very much to yourself and pretend that your achievement was the result of luck or some kind of fluke that just happened to you. And you really have to play it down and not go around boasting, because boasting is a bad thing to do here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sarah Lyall on Why the Brits Are Different | 9/4/2008 | See Source »

Heady words, indeed. Yet what looked like a transformation turned out to be a fluke - or so argues Robert Kagan, in the wryly titled The Return of History and the End of Dreams. Like Fukuyama, Kagan served in the U.S. State Department (as a speech writer for Secretary of State George Shultz); he now lives in Brussels and is a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Best known for the 2003 success Of Paradise and Power: America and Europe in the New World Order, Kagan recently made news as a major influence behind John McCain's most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Power Struggle | 5/21/2008 | See Source »

...would be an understatement for the blossoming rookie. In Harvard’s April 12-13 series with Yale, O’Neill finally found his stride, going 5-for-5 with three runs in a 12-2 win over the Bulldogs. The freshman showed the performance was no fluke the following day, going 2-for-4 with a run in the Crimson?...

Author: By Michael J. Buckley, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Rookie Shines in Multi-Sport Role | 4/22/2008 | See Source »

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