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...recent seasons, Cornell had been standing in the shadow of Harvard, the 2000 Indoor Heptagonal champion, and Brown, the champion last season. With both Brown and Harvard suffering heavy losses to graduation, Cornell has taken control...
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Hilton professed that Shangri-la is not on any map, but that hasn't stopped numerous countries?Nepal, Ladakh, Sikkim and Bhutan, among others?from claiming to harbor the verdant Himalayan valley in the shadow of a glacier-clad peak, shaped like a pyramid. The People's Republic of China is the latest to jump on the bandwagon, announcing in 1996 that it had found Shangri-la in the mountainous Deqin prefecture of northwestern Yunnan province. Not to be outdone, Sichuan, its equally scenic neighbor to the north, has since claimed the title for its Yading Nature Reserve...
English football is no stranger to errant behavior, but much of it has traditionally come from fans, rather than players. For decades the game has been dogged by the dark shadow of hooliganism, a plague so closely associated with the game's founding country that it is known as the English disease. (An ugly reminder of that malady came on Jan. 6, when police fought fans after a match between Cardiff City and Leeds United; 12 arrests have thus far ensued.) Aggression is such a part of the game that the Football League was recently obliged to consider a code...
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