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...Crimson offense from the tying touchdown. On first down from the 3-yard line, junior quarterback Liam O’Hagan dropped back to pass, only to trip and fall into the end zone, resulting in a safety.The play was emblematic of Harvard’s general fortunes at Franklin Field Saturday, as the Crimson (7-2, 4-2 Ivy) fell to the Quakers (5-4, 3-3 Ivy) 22-13 in front of 7,819 fans in Philadelphia, PA.The game opened on a high note for Harvard, as senior running back Clifton Dawson took his second carry 55 yards...
...They’re an outstanding team. This was one that we really needed, this was one that I really wanted for my own individual goals. I wanted, first and foremost, to win an Ivy League championship.”The problem seems to be a Franklin Field curse.In the team’s 2004 undefeated season, the Crimson beat Penn badly on its home turf, but other than that it has been all Quakers.Before the Ryan Fitzpatrick era, the squad had not won since 1980 at Franklin.Despite Penn’s lackluster record, there is something about the field...
...ARETHA FRANKLIN...
...centerpiece of Franklin's first album for Atlantic Records was her cover of Otis Redding's Respect, a song that, released in the midst of the racial and sexual tumult of 1967, meant so much to so many people. It remains her signature anthem--and for good reason--though its overexposure means that her versions of Ray Charles' Drown in My Own Tears and Sam Cooke's A Change Is Gonna Come and her emotionally delicate performance of Do Right Woman--Do Right Man are criminally overlooked...
...pick one over the other or to blur the distinction between them. Instead, it's to weave them together in the right combination so that they reinforce each other. ?Isaacson, a former managing editor of TIME, is president of the Aspen Institute and author of biographies of Benjamin Franklin and Henry Kissinger