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...Harvard finished the season was with a thrilling 10-6 upset victory over previously unbeaten B.C. The victory allowed Harvard to capture the Beanpot, and was especially sweet because the same Eagle squad blasted the Crimson, 32-6, in a fall mismatch...
N.F.L. traditionalists hoped for a Giants-Browns matchup, a game fit to be watched on black-and-white television. But Super Bowl tradition is founded in the old American Football League too, and Elway casts something of a Joe Namath shadow on the mismatch. As of last week Elway had not guaranteed a victory, but he did say this, "You have got to win the Super Bowl before you are a great quarterback...
...mismatch . . . between faculty expectations and the academic preparation of entering students." Said a math professor: "The biggest problem I have with my students is getting them to read and write...
...Central America, there is a mismatch between the Administration's objective and the instruments available, reminiscent of our ill-fated adventure in Lebanon," James Schlesinger, Defense Secretary under Gerald Ford, told TIME last week. "Mere dislike of the Sandinistas is not an - adequate basis for policy." Schlesinger contends that the rebels are no equal for the Nicaraguan army. "To define the American interest as that of the contras is to identify with a losing cause," says he. "To suggest that money for--and victory of--the contras is the only way to avoid introducing American troops is to come close...
Unfortunately, self-respect may be only thing Harvard can expect to win when it ventures down to Durham, N.C., this weekend to face Duke. The contest against the nation's second-ranked team is probably the biggest college basketball mismatch of the year since North Carolina demolished Manhattan in December...