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...game winning streak in this series, including memorable overtime victories in 2004 and 2005. Brown’s best chance of snapping the slide is if tailback Dereck Knight can repeat his performance of a week ago, when he carried 33 times for 208 yards in a 28-17 triumph over Duquesne and earned Ivy Offensive Player of the Week honors. Don’t bet on it; the Harvard defense is looking for redemption after allowing four TDs and registering just one takeaway in Week 1. Plus, Liam O’Hagan should have a big day against...
...Levin-Reed so far has been a triumph of hope over experience. That's because the Senate has voted on Levin-Reed four times in the last 16 months. In June 2006, a slightly different measure by the same name attracted 39 votes. But in March 2007, support jumped to 48 votes; in April of this year, the measure garnered the support of 51 Senators; in July, 52 Senators moved behind the measure...
...include several scenes shot at the so-called "Bendler Block," a building complex in central Berlin where the officer was executed. Defense Ministry spokesman Thomas Raabe told reporters that a consideration of the film's script led to the decision. The film shows that "barbarism didn't triumph but led to the founding of a democratic Germany," he said...
...literacy apparently diffused through English society from the top down, eventually jump-starting the Industrial Revolution, and allowing, for the first time in history, economic growth to outpace population growth. England's exploding prosperity, then, depended on the cultural, and perhaps even biological, transmission of those values. "The triumph of capitalism in the modern world thus may lie as much in our genes as in ideology or rationality," Clark concludes...
...springboks may fulfil their promise gloriously in this year's Rugby World Cup. At the Parc des Princes in Paris on Sept. 9, they trounced Samoa by the withering score of 59-7. Their star black player, Bryan Habana, scored four tries, fueling hopes that the team might triumph over England on Sept. 14 and ultimately make it to the final...