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Tomorrow’s game is the penultimate obstacle the Crimson must overcome in its march towards the showdown with Yale and a possible Ivy League championship...

Author: By Lucy D. Chen, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard Trying To Stay in Big Apple | 11/2/2007 | See Source »

...there were ever any doubt about football's unchallenged place as the most popular pro sport in America, consider this fact: more people will watch this Sunday's regular-season showdown between the league's two undefeated teams, the New England Patriots and Indianapolis Colts, than watch a typical World Series and NBA Finals game combined...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why the NFL Is Still No. 1 | 11/2/2007 | See Source »

...played on ice. I'm sorry. I don't know if it's just me, but I hate going to arenas where it's 60 degrees outside and 50 degrees inside. That is not a sport. Ice Basketball is not a sport." Here's Gilbert on the upcoming Wizards showdown with the Celtics: "You might as well just cheer for me, because Boston isn't winning in Boston for the season opener. I'm sorry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The NBA — Never Bet Against It! | 10/30/2007 | See Source »

...least one title since Murphy came to Cambridge in 1993, and if that trend is to continue, it’s either now or next year for the Crimson. But in typical Murphy fashion, his focus after Saturday’s game wasn’t the looming showdown of 6-0’s at Yale in a few weeks or the growing parity of Ivy League football. “We know that the only way we can reach our goal is to just take it one day at a time,” he said...

Author: By Malcom A. Glenn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: THE MALCOM X-FACTOR: Harvard, Yale Only Contenders for Ivy Crown | 10/28/2007 | See Source »

...showdown has elements of a perfect storm. The decline of U.S. fortunes in Iraq has been accompanied by a rise in Iranian assertiveness, which has intensified with Ahmadinejad's recent tough talk. Trumpeting Iran's nuclear ambitions as a nationalist cause, Ahmadinejad rejected the agreement by his moderate predecessor, Mohammed Khatami, to voluntarily suspend uranium-enrichment during three years of negotiations with European powers. Ahmadinejad abandoned Khatami's "dialogue of civilizations" for more confrontational rhetoric, calling for Israel to be "wiped off the map" and goading the West by denying the Holocaust. Iran enthusiastically backed Hizballah and Hamas in their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iran War Drumbeat Grows Louder | 10/26/2007 | See Source »

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