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Despite Harvard’s reputation as a haven for braininess, the Harvard chess team is the underdog at the ‘Final Four’ national collegiate chess tournament in Miami this weekend...
...Most people expect us to finish dead last,” said team member Marc R. Esserman ’05. “But it’s good to be the underdog...
...stage was set. Everyone was fixated on the surprising underdog Cole and his increasing pace. With each turn, Cole closed in on Vendt and the PA announcer even got in on the drama, yelling, “Does John Cole have time to catch Vendt?” with each passing leg of the race...
...career, and also the peak. But if "Unfaithfully Yours," "Micki and Maude," "Best Defense," "Like Father, Like Son" and 1988's "Arthur 2: On the Rocks" were not the stuff of a lifetime achievement award, Moore continued to deliver what he did best - an always-funny mix of the underdog charm and comedic frustration of a little man trying to get his in a big dog's world...
...stories about the British in India still largely determine how the Brits think of that era. His lifelong interest in the country's military transformed its reputation. His home in Sussex has become a national shrine. More subtly, Kipling - the least pretentious of men and ever supportive of the underdog - had a huge and permanent influence in closing the gap in Britain between "high" and "popular" culture...