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...hard to believe that seven-card-stud could beat out Stewie Griffin and Captain Jack (excuse me, did someone just say stud?). But poker doesn’t only have fans on campus. It has also merited a weekly sports column in the New York Times, spawned a celebrity showdown on Bravo—which featured the likes of Oksana Baiul and Martin Sheen—and fueled a merchandising explosion; you can even play poker on your cell phone...
When it comes to issues such as war, genocide or religious conflict, few parties want to admit wrongdoing, and few are in agreement. That makes writing history textbooks free of biases, and fair to all sides of the showdown, a daunting task. But in the U.S. as well as around the world, some authors are attempting to take it on. Here are some examples of their efforts...
...Harvard (2-2, 1-1 Ivy League) plays Lafayette, the defending Patriot League champions, in a showdown of two teams heading in opposite directions...
...Quakers, on the other hand, have one of the nation’s top scoring offenses and defenses, as well as a top-flight special teams unit. This might just be the showdown of the Ivy League’s most and least complete teams...
...astronauts on a five-day journey circling Earth, while they conduct experiments on pig sperm. But the flight's importance reaches far beyond any advances in animal husbandry that may result from exposing hog semen to weightlessness. It is the latest shot fired in a fiercely competitive space showdown between China and Japan...