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...starter in big-game polish. Harvard head coach Tim Murphy and Bulldogs skipper Jack Siedlecki, assistants together at Lafayette in the early 80’s, have three and a half Ancient Eight titles between them; Murphy has three of those.Upstart Yale, however, picked fifth in the preseason media poll, can earn at least a share of the Ivy League crown in 2006 with a victory tomorrow, while Harvard, the early favorite, can force a three-way tie with a win and a Princeton loss versus Dartmouth. And, you know, 1636.There’s a silver lining here...
Around the world today, anti-Americanism is very much in vogue. In a Pew Global Attitudes Project poll released last June, favorable opinions of the United States among European citizens ranged from a dismally slim 23 percent among Spaniards, to a lackluster 56 percent in Great Britain. The last few weeks alone have seen German lawyers, buoyed by anti-American sentiment, file suit against recently resigned Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld for committing war crimes under international law. But from where do such sentiments arise?One reason frequently bandied about is that, in autocratic states like Saudi Arabia, students...
...Instead, the membership followed the trend of the party's voters, and then some: Royal's 60.62% share of the vote among the card-carriers bested her recent poll results among the party's voter base by more than five percentage points. Former finance minister Dominique Strauss-Kahn, whose lieutenants had been peddling the competence-not-populism line, received a humiliating 20.83%, just a nose ahead of former Prime Minister Laurent Fabius's 18.54%. "Now we know that the party membership doesn't deform the will of the party's broader electorate," said party official and National Assembly deputy Bruno...
...near the Science Center yesterday, I felt none the worse for my lack of Game experience. You can’t tell a non-Gamer by sight, after all. I’ve not been tagged with a scarlet H-Y. Have I really missed so much?A quick polling of some friends revealed mixed results.“Best experience I had at Harvard last year,” declares Walt, now a sophomore. He describes the final play of the 2005 triple-overtime triumph in New Haven, after which he rushed from the stands, faked out a security...
...some measures, tonight’s game could just have easily been played in Cambridge: Harvard enters play No. 13 in the latest NSCAA/Adidas poll, where the Bruins are ranked 22. The Crimson enters the contest on a nine-game win streak, whereas UCLA finished 10-5-4 and lost twice—by 3-1 and 4-1 scores—to Pac-10 champion and No. 13 seed California...