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...however, Penn battled back to garner a 66-65 win, but it would be the team's biggest scare all regular season. Penn went on to become the first Ivy League team in 10 years to make it to the second rund of the NCAA tournament...
Acoba's sarcasm aside, the Penn State reference had at least a little relevance to the Crimson's season. This season, Penn State beat UCLA to garner the NCAA championships, the first Eastern team to do so in years. Penn State's insurgence on the national scene exemplified a more general improvement in East Coast play, a context in which the Crimson's season must be judged...
...more ways than one, Eliot's words were prescient. Thanks largely to his contributions, the 20th century has seen Harvard solidify its reputation as America's leading institution of higher learning, by virtually every measure. Year after year, Harvard students win more Rhodes Scholarships and its faculty garner more Nobel Prizes than any other university in the world...
...Crimson opened the year with a second-place finish at the Harvard-Yale-Princeton traingular, beating Yale to garner a much-needed morale boost. It them finished sixth out of eight teams at a tough Hartford Invitational. And finally, it placed a not-too-shabby sixth out of nine teams at the Northeast Championships at Amherst...
...about Maverick is that it does the job -- it allows you to spend a perfectly agreeable evening without making you feel completely stupid or totally conned. The film offers us Mel Gibson as a new Bret Maverick, the Western gambler, as well as the old TV Maverick, James Garner, now playing a wry frontier sheriff. These two guys can make you smile contentedly even when the script is wandering and they're just sort of standing around waiting for its next good part to develop. Jodie Foster has to work harder as a gambling lady who exists mostly to bicker...