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After last week's near-upset of Division I Army, the Harvard football team (1-1, 1-0 Ivy) enters today's contest against Holy Cross in a familiar role: underdog...
Americans liked this Yeltsin, though -- his thumbs-up optimism, the hint of brash informality that underlay his new seriousness, his climb from underdog to winner. The next test, said Republican Senator Richard Lugar, member of the Foreign Relations Committee, is "how effective an executive he is." That means they'll like him even more if he delivers...
...worldly success, Greene retained the attitudes dictated by his childhood: a dislike for the strong -- hence his increasing postwar opposition to the U.S. -- and a sympathy for the underdog, a category that came to include everyone from Fidel Castro to Kim Philby, a onetime friend and also a British intelligence officer who famously spied for and then defected to the Soviet Union. The last 30 or so years of his life were spent in a modest & apartment in an undistinguished building in Antibes, on the French Mediterranean. Long separated (but never divorced) from his wife, Greene wrote conscientiously some...
...presidential candidates, Tsongas and Wilder give new meaning to the term underdog. Neither has ready access to big bucks. Tsongas left the Senate six years ago suffering from cancer. He says that he beat the disease. Conquering his image as a cool, cerebral Ivy League lawyer in the Dukakis mold may be just as tough...
...Everyone plays well when they're an underdog," Bailey said. "It's really hard not to slip down a few notches...