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...last time The Crimson checked in, Harvard wasn't expected to publicly launch its capital campaign, expected to surpass both Columbia and Yale, until "2008 or later." Meanwhile, The Dartmouth reports that the school's $1.3-billion campaign has reached its halfway point...
...within 50 yards of Cornell legend Ed Marinaro’s all-time Ivy career rushing record of 4,715.This year a fourth player will make a run at the top of the list.Senior tailback Clifton Dawson’s numbers are projected not only to approach, but to surpass Marinaro’s.The back entered the 2006 campaign with 3,628 career yards, needing just 1,087 to break the 1971 record. With 170 yards in the team’s opener against Holy Cross, he now sits a mere 917 yards away from the record.Dawson has already posted...
...disadvantaged and working-class youth must overcome in order to succeed. He has never held elected office, yet his success in reaching out to the electorate shows that he’s exactly what we need in our elected officials. Patrick offers both leadership and ideas that far surpass the ordinary, and we proudly endorse him for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination...
...Saudi Arabia and Kuwait have pledged an $800 million aid package to the Lebanese government for rebuilding projects while handing an additional $1.5 billion in soft loans to the Bank of Lebanon to shore up the nation's currency. Saudi officials believe that the kingdom's support will far surpass the amount Iran provides Hizballah and will enable Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora to ride out the group's grab for influence. "You have to empower the Lebanese government so that it can reconstruct the country," says Nawaf Obaid, head of the Saudi National Security Assessment Project, which advises...
...father becomes the son," Singer establishes his own film's central relationship. It is not romantic, between Lois and Clark. It's familial--the bond of two sets of fathers and sons: Jor-El and Superman, then Superman and Jason. Each parent tells his child that he must surpass the old man's feats, improve on Dad's legend. Poignantly, this strength, this divinity, isolates Superman from Earth's humans. He can save them but not be one of them. Lois can love him but never understand...