Word: patriot
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From today's perspective, those words seem prescient. After a 45-17 waxing at the hands of William and Mary last weekend, the big question for Harvard in today's game against 1992 Patriot League champion Lafayette concerns resilience...
Lafayette (2-1) will not likely help the Crimson with the answer, either. The Leopards are returning 15 starters this season from a team that last year was 8-3 overall with a 5-0 record in the tough Patriot League...
This season, the Leopards have again gotten off to a solid start. In their first game, they knocked off traditional Patriot League doormat Bucknell (31-14) in customary blowout fashion (the Leopards beat the Bison 49-7 last season). In their second game, they edged out independent and mediocre Buffalo (29-15). But in their last game, they were tagged by Ivy power Princeton...
...brand names in 1993, movies used a lure that worked well 50 years ago: popular novels. In the past four summers, only two Top 10 films (Presumed Innocent and Patriot Games) were based on familiar book titles. Michael Crichton alone will match that number this year, with Jurassic Park and Rising Sun, and the film of John Grisham's The Firm will be the season's second biggest hit. "Isn't it encouraging," asks Kaufman, "to know that some people might have read a book...
...darling of the '91 World Champion Twins' turned down a generous offer to stay in the city where he grew up and became an ex-patriot for an ex-tra million (and is now assuming the persona of an ex-star). With no dividends, and a waning fan-club, questions about his worth remain...