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With both teams expected to win their regular-season finales, the winner of tomorrow’s battle at Harvard Stadium will have a championship in its grasp...

Author: By Scott A. Sherman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard Seeks Third Consecutive Crown | 11/13/2009 | See Source »

Last season in Philadelphia, Penn stole the Ancient Eight title and the accompanying automatic NCAA tournament bid from Harvard’s grasp when the ball trickled into the net past then-freshman goalkeeper Austin Harms in the fifth minute of overtime...

Author: By Eric L. Michel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Crimson Plays for Payback, Ivy Title | 11/13/2009 | See Source »

...theories and presumed exposés of evil. The more Rivera’s psychological state deteriorates, the more elaborate her theories become; however, amidst the nonsense and rants that Rivera produces, it becomes horrifyingly apparent that her theories are actually truths, as if only an irrational mind could grasp the illogical nature of the what occurred in real-world San Salvador...

Author: By Renee G. Stern, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Reflections in a Political ‘Mirror’ | 11/6/2009 | See Source »

Lear’s lecture, which focused on difficult philosophical concepts, was directed toward those with a wide-ranging grasp of philosophical history...

Author: By Stephanie B. Garlock, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Professor Discusses the Human Condition | 11/5/2009 | See Source »

...same complaint about superficiality can be lodged against Amelia. We learn a lot about where Earhart went and what she wore - behold the sumptuous caramel-colored leather jumpsuit! But the woman herself remains tantalizingly out of our grasp, and not just because she, her navigator and their plane vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July 2, 1937, leaving no trace but spurring hundreds of theories about their fate. The movie dutifully covers the high points and a few details you didn't learn in grade school - including Earhart's great passion for Gore Vidal's father and how much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hollywood's Amelia Earhart: Lost at Sea | 11/2/2009 | See Source »

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