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...that statement, intentionally or not, was an indictment against the Crimson’s confident, experienced and largely consistent goaltender: He may keep Harvard in the game, he may do enough to enable his team to win, but Grumet-Morris did not do enough to win a game outright for his team in the NCAAs...
Wait a second, only two non-P’s have won outright Ivy titles since the first airing of “Mork and Mindy” and the best explanation for that trend is that Penn and Princeton “try harder...
...time, Green says he considered abandoning the project outright...
...Liberal,” 22 percent were “Moderate,” 11 percent were “Conservative,” 2 percent were “Very Conservative” and 6 percent were “Apathetic.” Ostensibly, it appeared that outright liberals outnumbered outright conservatives on a four to one margin. But the analysis does not end there. Why? Unlike most surveys, this one is not anonymous. Every “Very Conservative” student can be easily brought up onto my screen and carefully tabulated...
...subtle semantics of diplomacy, the meaning of the word "success" must sometimes be broadened to include anything short of outright failure. Such was the case last Saturday at the close of the second round of six-nation talks on North Korea's nuclear program. After four days of intense negotiations at a secluded guesthouse in Beijing, officials from each of the participating countries?China, Japan, North and South Korea, Russia and the U.S.?expressed their satisfaction with a process the chief achievement of which was to have avoided falling apart entirely. "There was no breakdown but no breakthrough," says...