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Just as the Harvard men’s ice hockey team’s victory seemed inevitable, a three-goal comeback by Union in the final six minutes of the game threatened its triumph. But it wasn’t quite enough to overcome the Crimson...
Sure, there have been some close games. The Tigers’ win in Cambridge a week ago was certainly thrilling, as was Penn’s narrow victory over Dartmouth last Friday. But the closest game the league has to an upset is the Quakers’ last-second triumph over Brown, a win that rocked the league about as hard as an Enya concert...
...Faces of America is my way of celebrating what for me is the true triumph of American democracy, which is our diversity, our ethnic, cultural, and religious diversity,” Gates said. “And we can now measure that diversity, in a sense, through genealogy and genetics...
...That’s a pretty heavy thing to realize for a black person,” Gates said. “There are painful things and there are joyous things, but that’s what our past is, it’s a combination of tragedy and triumph...
Call it a Super Bowl weekend upset or proof of the law of diminishing returns - or even the triumph of one love story over another. Whatever the explanation, Dear John, a young-adult weepie based on a novel by The Notebook's Nicholas Sparks, dethroned Avatar as king of the domestic box office, according to early studio estimates. The clear victory - $32.4 million for Dear John to the sci-fi eco-epic's $23.6 million - ends Avatar's weekend winning streak at seven. James Cameron's previous smash, Titanic, reigned for an astounding 16 consecutive weeks, from its opening...