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...actual story is much more tragic. The loss to Princeton completely reversed the Crimson's luck, as Harvard went on the road the next two weekends and dropped four in a row. After that tailspin, it took wins over Cornell and Columbia in Harvard's final two games of the season just to salvage a .500 league record...
...slaughter of tens of thousands of animals that might have been exposed. Across Europe, traffic backed up for inspection and disinfection at border posts left idle and untended for years. Most of the world banned meat from the European Union, sending already struggling farm businesses into an economic tailspin...
Having been stuck in a depressive tailspin since their snubbing by Alan Greenspan and the Fed on Tuesday, the stock markets are desperate for one of two things: Some good news about corporate earnings, or some bad news about the economy - bad enough to force Greenspan to jump into rate-cutting with both feet...
This will not be the Crimson's first huge game against Cornell. The Big Red defeated Harvard, 2-1, in a battle first place in the ECAC at Bright last month. That loss sent Harvard into a tailspin, as it would go on to lose four more games...
After a post-exam period tailspin, Harvard has slowly been plugging away in the standings and gradually regained its foothold in the league. Difficult victories over St. Lawrence and Rennsalaer almost a month ago, and a dominant performance against Yale a few weeks ago--a mere taste of the series that was to come--boosted the Crimson's confidence to unprecedented levels this season...