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...think it depends on what state you’re in,” Stone said yesterday. “If you’re out here, clearly we’re the underdog. If we were having this conversation in Cambridge, we’d be the favorite. We match up really well. Everyone [here] expects the Bulldogs to win tomorrow, and we’re going to change that...
After losing to Cornell twice during the regular season and seeing the Big Red climb to second in the national rankings, Mazzoleni understands Harvard is an underdog...
Princeton plays a division above Harvard, making the Crimson the underdog for the second consecutive week...
Sporting their sunglasses and trim figures, smartly enduring and inventing indignities, these characters are a new breed of Palestinian: cool. (When a fire bomb is lobbed into his driveway, a man blithely turns on a fire extinguisher, as if terrorists were familiar household pests.) They also have an underdog appeal. That's one perk of being on the weaker side: you get to make jokes about the mighty. Short of a suicide bomb, what power have they...
...Nice to root for the underdog, but what about countries that produced several great films this year? Academy rules allow only one film per country per year, forcing prolific nations to make painful choices; Mexico's Y Tu Mamá También and Spain's Talk to Her were not submitted. "The impulse of the Academy is to be as inclusive as possible," says executive director Bruce Davis. "Ideally every picture in every country [would be] eligible. We would then decide what the best films of the year were and if all five came from Yugoslavia...