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...first- and second-varsity boats have amassed seven Sprints championships, including three consecutive wins for the varsity from 2003 to 2005. Now, however, the Harvard varsity finds itself in an all-too familiar place but with an altogether new label at this year’s Sprints: that of underdog, one Harvard had shed in time to take the No. 1 seed into Sprints a year ago. The 2005 squad blitzed the field during the dual season to snatch the No. 1 ranking in the weeks before Sprints.This dual season was less dominant and more tumultuous, marked both by brilliance...
...murders to VB's xenophobic policies. "These horrible and cowardly crimes are a form of extreme racism," said Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt. "No one can ignore what the far right can lead to." Whether such charges will erode the VB's appeal, or give it a new underdog allure, is still not clear...
...game hardware is aborning. Microsoft launched its next-gen Xbox 360 in November of last year; Nintendo and Sony will launch their new machines this fall. Those changeovers, which happen every four or five years, are moments of opportunity in the gaming industry, when the guard changes and the underdog has its day. Nintendo--a company that is, for better or for worse, addicted to risk taking--will attempt to steal a march on its competitors with a bizarre wireless device that senses a player's movements and uses them to control video games. Even more bizarre is the fact...
...Once the underdog in the microchip world to industry leader Intel, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) is enjoying a hard-won victory lap, thanks to its hot Opteron processors. A 70% jump over last year's first-quarter revenues has Dell turning its head; Google is already an AMD partner. Meanwhile, Intel sweats out every earnings call as some of its best customers defect. AMD's Hector Ruiz, CEO of the $6 billion chip company, spoke with TIME's COCO MASTERS about chip architecture, energy prices and doing battle with Intel...
...Roger Ebert's Overlooked Film Festival, that's precisely the kind of underdog spirit the crowd lives for - a spirit driven in part by their hunger for great films, but also partly by a desire to thumb their noses at movie studio executives who claim to know what audiences want. As Ebert said during a post-film discussion, reacting to a suggestion that a studio didn't think one of the festival's 12 selected titles would appeal to the youth market: "We cannot be held captive to a bunch of illiterate 16-year-olds...