Word: robin
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...frustrating loss, since the Crimson was one of three teams to tie for first on the first day of competition. But on the second day, Harvard was forced into a single-elimination round-robin sail-off in which it lost to both teams. Moreover, the Crimson had beaten both schools two weekends earlier when it finished second at the Friis Trophy Team Race...
...Robin A. Harris, a sixth-grade teacher at the Benjamin Banneker Charter School in Cambridge and a member of the committee in 1994-95, ousted incumbent Alfred B. Fantini in the election by a margin of only 200 votes...
...first part of competition is a round-robin tournament, and the top two finishers in each of two six-team pools advances to the semifinals. Harvard, playing in Pool A, posted a 17-14 victory over ninth-seeded Rice in the second round, and beat 12th-seeded Iowa, 15-10, in the fifth round...
...done to support the United Nations arms embargo that was imposed last October and that the U.S. backed. Did the State Department ignore a clandestine delivery by a group of British mercenaries of nearly 40 tons of high-powered weapons to the diamond-rich nation? Both British Foreign Secretary ROBIN COOK and State Department spokesman JAMES RUBIN deny knowledge of the shipment. But a well-informed U.S. official tells TIME that word of the February deal was flashed to Washington from Africa and elsewhere. A participant in a Foggy Bottom meeting in early March says the completed shipment was described...
...Ocean's Eleven (1960) and Robin and the Seven Hoods (1964). These two basically cover the "Rat Pack" phenomenon. "Ocean's Eleven" gets an edge for a semblance of plot and a winning turn by Cesar Romero as kingpin Duke Santos. "Robin" has some good musical numbers. Both are ultimately dragged down by too many flat spaces and an over-reliance on Pack charm to fill them...