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Yesterday, Trinity rolled into Cambridge stinging from a 7-2 loss to No. 1 Yale on Jan. 26. Harvard was fresh off an intense intersession training trip, and boasted several strong young players on its roster. But the Crimson, untested, was still perceived as the underdog...
...preparation for the match, the coaches have stressed the importance of a relaxed attitude. Since the Crimson is a heavy underdog, some of the pressure of previous years is absent...
...World Trade Center. Habib joined protests at Nosair's 1991 trial for murdering a rabbi, tried to raise money for El-Gabrowny's defense, and raised $500 to buy medicine for Sheikh Omar. But his motives were purely charitable, Hopper says: "He would always stand up for the underdog." The increasingly devout Habib also joined the same hardline Muslim prayer group as Willy Brigitte, Murat Ofkeli and Bilal Khazal, who were all later charged with terrorism offenses in Australia or overseas. But he didn't share their views, Hopper says. Indeed, Habib had a public fight with Khazal...
Murray, who grew up in a blue-collar family, suggests that his outbursts are generally spurred by a still fiery sense of class resentment and empathy for the underdog. On the set of his new film for Jarmusch, Murray got into a fracas with the location manager when he arrived at a rented house for a scene with child actors and discovered that there was no heat. When he started a fire in the fireplace, the location manager told him to stop. "'Who are you?'" Murray says, whispering, as he recalls the story, in the same intimidating hush he used...
DIED. FERNANDO POE JR., 65, Filipino film idol turned presidential candidate; after a stroke; in Quezon City, the Philippines. Popular for playing socially conscious underdog heroes in more than 200 action movies, the actor known as "Da King" lost by 3% of the vote to incumbent Gloria Macapagal Arroyo last May. His court challenge of the count is still pending...