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...Crimson boasts an impressive 6-2 won-lost record (3-2 Ivies) including victories over Army and William & Mary--two teams rated superior in pre-game prognostications. More important, the gridders retain a chance to share the Ivy crown for the first time since 1975, when they won it outright on a last-minute Mike Lynch field goal at Yale...
...Charlie Dale pass judgment on the fate of the Harvard season. The Crimson's chances for a share of the Ivy championship rest with Cornell this week (and Princeton next) in their encounter with Yale at the Bowl. If the Elis win both of those, they win the League outright--whether they beat Harvard...
Andrew Jackson was an unhappy man in the fall of 1825. Nominated for the presidency as the candidate of the South and West, he had tallied 99 electoral votes, more than any of his three competitors. But his failure to gain an outright majority threw the election into the House of Representatives, where Henry Clay--a distant fourth-place finisher in the initial balloting--donated his votes to John Quincy Adams, allowing the New Englander to sneak off with the keys to the White House...
...matter how many city officials decry the plan, however, there is no guarantee the state will come up with a new, progressive tax system. The legislature would have to act on Proposition 2 1/2 before it could become law, and it could easily alter it or reject it outright...
...potential risk of a Reagan foreign policy probably is not so much outright belligerence as his tendency to divide the world into good guys and bad guys. He seems to underestimate the complexity of Third World countries, where not all revolutionary movements are necessarily pro-Soviet or permanently anti-American. Evenhandedness in delicate trouble spots?of the sort that enabled Carter to bring about the Camp David accords?does not seem much in Reagan's character. His one-sided defense of the Israeli position, to the extent that it is more than campaign rhetoric, leaves him little credibility...