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...Harvard beats Penn and Yale, Harvard wins the league title outright...
Holy Cross, Harvard's opponent today, chuckles at four touchdowns. It outright laughs at three...
Goodbye, Penn: Thanks to Keller's bumble, the Quaker dynasty is over. Princeton came into Franklin Field Saturday and defeated the five-time defending (three-time outright) Ivy champs, 17-7, eliminating the Quakers (2-3 Ivy) from this year's tough Ivy race...
...fatigue was understandable. For months, Noboru Takeshita had been the front runner among three candidates to succeed Yasuhiro Nakasone, Japan's popular Prime Minister. But though he controlled the largest bloc of votes in the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (L.D.P.), Takeshita did not have enough to take the office outright. Negotiations to persuade his rivals to withdraw were deadlocked. By 10 p.m. on the eve of a party vote, Takeshita, the consummate dealmaker, had realized there were no more deals to make. He reluctantly left the final decision to Nakasone, leader of the party. The Prime Minister might well have...
...process is called a "correction," which makes it sound like a painless, orderly affair. But last week's bloodbath on Wall Street was more aptly dubbed an "October massacre." Turmoil and outright fear shook the financial markets as stampeding hordes of investors got caught up in a mood that had been almost absent during the go-go 1980s: bearishness. Over the course of less than two months, in the worst setback since the bull market began five years ago, the value of U.S. stocks has plunged by nearly half a trillion dollars...