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...tournament since 1946. Those dreams, however, faded into bitter memory with an eight-game league losing streak late in the season that transformed Harvard from title challengers into a team struggling to avoid the Ivy basement. After a pair of emotionally jarring last-minute defeats, Harvard fell into a tailspin, losing its shot at history along with the chance for its first winning record in four years. The Crimson finished the season at 13-14 overall and sixth in the Ivy League with a 5-9 mark, seven games behind champion Penn.“What [the team] experienced...
...hates the UC.”The grotesque irony of the entire ordeal, which a few UC represenatives realized a few days after the meeting, was that Greenfield’s empty constitutional amendment—the one that sent the council into a parliamentary tailspin in the first place—never attained the required 37-vote threshold required for a constitutional amendment. When the council voted on 62.35, the constitution still had its “one-half” clause intact. And so next Sunday’s council meeting promises another round...
...that science hasn’t always made me want to slam my head against a wall, that I once harbored dreams of a career in public health, that I am not a complete moron. But while in high school a failed exam would have sent me into a tailspin of shame and despair, four years of good training in self-righteousness and entitlement at Harvard have taught me instead to reach for a beer and a pen in indignation...
...going away.Final Score: Notre Dame 31, Tennessee 10Arizona State (-2.5) at Washington StateThe Sun Devils are badly underrated at this point. This is a team that had USC on the ropes, had LSU within a down of victory, and crushed a pretty good Northwestern squad.Arizona State went into a tailspin after the USC loss, dropping three straight. But the Sun Devils are much better than the 4-4 record that they possess.With their bowl hopes on the line, Arizona State will come through with the victory.Final Score: Arizona State 35, Washington State 24Wisconsin (+10.5) at Penn StateThe Badgers...
...cutting U.S. dependence on the volatile Middle East. And they have some radical ideas about how to do it. "We live in a world in which a terrorist attack in the Middle East could push oil well over $100 a barrel and send the world economy into a tailspin," says former CIA Director James Woolsey, now a vice president at consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton. One organization he belongs to, the Energy Future Coalition, shot off a letter last month to Pete Domenici, chairman of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, calling for a federal investment in alternative...