Word: sixteen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard women's basketball team quietly entered Maples Pavilion last night through the players' entrance. Harvard (23-5, 12-2 Ivy) was getting ready to battle ninth-seeded Arkansas in a second-round matchup of the NCAA Tournament with the winner earning a trip to the famed Sweet Sixteen...
...There they are--the giant killers," the man repeated. "Welcome back." "Thanks," responded Harvard sophomore Laela Sturdy. "It's nice to be back." The Crimson was back because it outplayed the Cardinal--a team that had made 10 consecutive Sweet Sixteen appearances between 1988 and 1997--on Saturday night. The Stanford Event Staff member knew that; unfortunately, it appears the rest of the West Coast does...
Harvard now has a chance to advance to the Sweet Sixteen if it can get by Arkansas tonight, and if the Crimson can keep riding its emotional high, there is no telling how far it can go in the postseason. This team has definitely proven that anything is possible...
...pumped to play Arkansas," Feastersaid. "We want to be in the Sweet Sixteen as muchas they do, and I think we deserve...
...Sixteen years later, the rule still held. In The Best Man, a 1964 adaptation of Gore Vidal's play, Henry Fonda is the thoughtful but philandering candidate whose main rival is the unscrupulous Cliff Robertson. At the party convention, Robertson digs up some dirt on Fonda and uses it. Fonda gets some on Robertson but doesn't use it, proving he's the best man, even if not the best husband, but ending his chance at the nomination. He manages to thwart Robertson by other means. With both flawed men out of the running, the Oval Office remains...