Word: upset
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last year, you may recall, Penn nosed out Cornell on the final day of the season, 31-21, in a battle of Ivy undefeateds to capture its fifth crown. But Saturday's upset--it was Penn's first home loss to an Ivy opponent in six years--indicates that Cornell may well be the team to beat this year in the Ancient Eight...
...Harvard finished the season was with a thrilling 10-6 upset victory over previously unbeaten B.C. The victory allowed Harvard to capture the Beanpot, and was especially sweet because the same Eagle squad blasted the Crimson, 32-6, in a fall mismatch...
...husband rather tactlessly suggested last January that his wife would have to leave her job eventually, she sharply rebuked him. The Senator, who plans to announce his candidacy formally in the next two months, turned charmingly rueful. They both made a joke of it, but she was genuinely upset. "I've rarely seen her angry," says her former assistant, Mari Maseng, now communications director of the Dole campaign, "but she was annoyed...
...Miami, the day after arriving and being greeted by President Reagan, he will confer with national Jewish leaders. Jews were upset by the Pope's audience with Austrian President Kurt Waldheim, who has been accused of complicity in Nazi war crimes. John Paul attempted to mollify ill feelings with a letter expressing sorrow over the Holocaust, and will continue the fence mending at a Vatican meeting this week with Jewish officials. In Columbia, S.C., on Sept. 11, he will talk with an array of 27 leaders of non- Catholic churches, then join an ecumenical prayer service with 72,000 people...
...over how doctors are trained has exploded into action. Troubled by a rash of malpractice cases that, he says, "seem to have been related to fatigue and lack of supervision," Health Commissioner David Axelrod appointed a blue- ribbon committee of New York doctors to investigate. Axelrod had been particularly upset by the case of Libby Zion, an 18-year-old Manhattanite who died while undergoing treatment for a high fever at New York Hospital in 1984; a grand jury attributed her death to neglectful treatment by tired and undersupervised young residents...