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Okay, I admit there are some problems with this goal. Penn State tends to win a few more games than Harvard every year and might even edge out the Crimson in head-to-head competition. It is hard to generate fan loyalty to a team that plays a competitive game with Columbia...
Cornell and Clarkson were tied for third place with 27 points apiece. The ECAC's first tiebreaker, head-to-head results, was inconclusive--the teams tied twice. Criterion number two, the squads' record against the league's top four teams, resulted in another draw...
Even without a head-to-head challenger, continued upheavals in the non- Russian republics and perestroika's failure to fill empty stores with food and clothing are sending Gorbachev's popularity plummeting among ordinary citizens. How Mikhail Gorbachev handles the occupation of Azerbaijan -- and how the Azerbaijanis react -- will affect not only the future of his policies but the fate of the policymaker himself...
...head-to-head meet with Army last Saturday in West Point, N.Y., the Harvard women's track team emerged with a convincing 77-41 victory. The men's squad was not so successful against the Cadets, suffering its first defeat of the season...
...that the cold war is over and that the Soviet Union is not a major threat to either of us -- a conclusion, incidentally, that every Chinese leader I met rejects -- we still have a strong strategic interest in restoring a good relationship with the P.R.C. President Bush will go head-to-head with Gorbachev in the Mediterranean on Dec. 2. Gorbachev is not a closet democrat, a philanthropist or a fool. His handshake will be warm, but based on his past record we can assume that he will have a card or two up his sleeve. We should...