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...Trinity men are a powerhouse. They are currently ranked No. 1 in the country, leaving the Harvard men--winners of the last eight national championships--in the unfamiliar position of underdog...

Author: By Richard A. Perez, | Title: M., W. Squash Crush Big Green | 2/4/1999 | See Source »

...Bantams have made some solid additions to the team this season, and looked primed to get back at Harvard. The Crimson, meanwhile, graduated several key players, and is the clear underdog...

Author: By Richard A. Perez, | Title: M., W. Squash Crush Big Green | 2/4/1999 | See Source »

Hawn will receive her congratulatory "Pudding Pot" at a preview of the Pudding players' 151st show. Jackson will receive his "pot" Feb. 18 prior to the opening performance of "I Get No Kick From Campaign," a political satire chronicling the race of an underdog candidate for the American presidency...

Author: By Joyce K. Mcintyre, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Hasty Pudding Names Hawn, Jackson Woman and Man of the Year | 2/3/1999 | See Source »

...Bradley is (Dick Gephardt has better name recognition). Political operatives wonder how Bradley expects to raise the $20 million he needs to take on Gore. They wonder if he's running for President--or Vice President. The idea makes him giggle. "I've always preferred to be the underdog," he says, arguing that it's early yet. By spring, he's sure, he'll have money and foot soldiers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Bradley Catch Up? | 2/1/1999 | See Source »

...Texas Death Row Fugitive Guy was so empathetic because he was an underdog: darkening his uniform with a pen, scaling two 10-ft., razor-studded fences, ducking a barrage of bullets, scampering through a marshy forest and evading more than 500 officers. Martin Gurule was a maverick with nothing left to lose up against a giant bureaucracy and some pretty cocky-sounding Texas prison officers, who were fooled by pillows he bunched together to make it look like him sleeping. Gurule was fighting the Man. He was messing with Texas. Are you getting this, Mr. Bruckheimer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rooting for the Death-Row Fugitive Guy | 12/14/1998 | See Source »

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