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...both opened the Ivy season eying the championship," Delaney Smith said. "I really wonder what their mindset is going to be this time. Being the underdog might change things for Princeton...

Author: By Patty W. Seo, | Title: W. Cagers Regroup After Brown Loss And Prepare for Tough Road Weekend | 2/18/1993 | See Source »

...simple; a Black official was a victim of discrimination. But cabbies complain that they are often victims themselves of violence and robbery. They assert that they are not being racist but rather protecting what little they have. Suddenly it is a little harder to figure out who is the underdog...

Author: By Julian E. Barnes, | Title: Educating Ourselves: A Newspaper's Balancing Act | 2/3/1993 | See Source »

Possibly related is the failure of the great altruism trend to appear on schedule. As predicted by Arthur Schlesinger Jr. and others, the '80s were supposed to be followed by something closely resembling the '60s: concern for the underdog, lower standards of personal hygiene, giving all for the cause. Perhaps it just seemed too overwhelming -- considering that to balance the greed of the '80s, commuters would have had to strip the very coats from their backs and donate them to unwashed vagrants, along with the keys to their country homes. So the altruism trend, along with the angels, remains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Won't Somebody Do Something Silly? | 1/11/1993 | See Source »

...least one trait in common with Hoffa: a ferocious and relentless tendency to attack the government for trying to clean up the union. When Carey was elected a year ago on a promise to rid the union of organized crime, federal agents and prosecutors were overjoyed by the underdog's surprise victory. Now they wonder if their confidence was misplaced. "He definitely has not been a corruption fighter so far," says Edward Ferguson, who recently served as the lead prosecutor against the Teamsters. "Nobody is suggesting that Carey is a bad guy, but his whole pitch was 'Elect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Hoffa Haunts the Teamsters | 12/21/1992 | See Source »

Kansas State was usually a major underdog in the league, sometimes not even predicted to come within 30 of certain other Big Eight teams (e.g., Kansas in the Danny Manning Years, Missouri in the Anthony Peeler years...

Author: By Sean D. Wissman, | Title: Words of Wissman | 12/8/1992 | See Source »

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