Word: upset
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While most Harvard students are studying for final exams this weekend, Blake and his Crimson teammates will be spending the weekend at the NCAA Championships at the University of Georgia. After an upset of 12th-ranked Florida last weekend at the Region I tournament held at Harvard, Blake thinks the Crimson is in a position to do well in Georgia. He also looks forward to the individual tournament, which begins early next week...
...Harvard gained victory in an "upset" over the Flying Dutchmen of Hofstra. The Dutchmen were seeded sixth in the tournament, while Harvard was only ranked 11th, even after compiling a 9-2 record with one of those losses being at the hands of top-seeded Princeton...
...Harvard victory over Virginia would clearly be an upset, but by no means is it out of the question. The novelty of being in the tournament has worn off, so now the Crimson can focus on playing well and keeping their eight-game winning streak alive...
...philosophy certainly would upset some people," Robinson said. "He's a professor and he digs farther in terms of truth and doesn't take our history in terms of being absolute, and I think that's possibly upset some people...
...accident that Clinton is proving especially good at this. In 1988 he watched in pain as Michael Dukakis was battered without mercy by George Bush. Clinton was so upset by the Democratic nominee's failure to punch back that he flew from Little Rock to Boston to tutor Dukakis staff members on the wisdom and methods of rapid response. But no one listened until it was too late; Dukakis thought the ads about furloughed killer Willie Horton did not need to be answered simply because they were stupid and wrong, ignoring the fact that they were devastating. By the time...