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This may be one of the most balanced Ivy League seasons in years. With upstart Penn looking to play David to Harvard's Goliath, Saturday's matchup should presage things to come in the Ivy League soccer season...
...long, the de facto helmsman races in and out, trying out bits of his Wednesday speech. He is aware of the naysaying, that Apple, with its single-digit market share, is doomed to fall before the Goliath of Microsoft. At Macworld, he will stress instead Apple's domination of education and desktop publishing. He fiddles with a paper clip as he thinks out loud...
...Eureka's Republican Congressman (his district is the nation's third largest and includes the whole state except for central Las Vegas), feels a little alienated himself. In town for a make-your-own-sub-sandwich get-together, he characterizes his job on Capitol Hill as a "David and Goliath" situation. "There's a cynicism about government out here because it's so far away," says Gibbons. "Every state has its believers in black helicopters, but our real problem is that the rest of the country sees us as a solution to its problems. Everybody wants to dump their waste...
...followed a day later with full-page ads in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times and San Jose Mercury News. Wall Street took the bait, wrist slapping Intel's soaring stock down $6 and backslapping Digital up $2 in the belief that the microchip David wouldn't rile Goliath unless it had a really, really good case...
Somewhere, George Brett and John Smoltz are smiling about Harvard's win. It's about time Goliath...