Word: upset
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...didn’t see any really awful things, though it did feel awful to have vodka in my sinuses. The worst of the club, it seemed, was stuff that reminded me of being dumb and in high school. Though I didn’t see too much that upset me during the punch process, I think it was because the problems weren’t always visible, or were hard to see in the glare of the beautiful mansion and its fun-loving occupants. I ambivalently joined at the end of the punch, and gradually the problems revealed themselves.Throughout...
...Eastern Championships, the final tier of playoffs, where the Crimson will face ivy-rival Princeton in its first match. Though Harvard (10-12) will enter the game as the underdog against the Tigers (18-9), if the Crimson can maintain ball control, it has a chance to upset the same team that made it to the national championship game against UCLA last year. Each team brings different strengths to the match. Princeton, the defending Eastern Champions, are much speedier in the water and have one of the fastest players on the east coast on the team. The team lost...
Will this be the year that Harvard is upset as the ECAC title-holder...
...Olympics, most of the teams that made it to the NCAA tournament last year are the favorites to return. The order of these frontrunners has changed from last year; here is a short look at where four of the top eight teams finished their seasons in 2004-2005.The Saints upset Dartmouth and Duluth, but lost to the Crimson in the semifinals of the NCAA tournament for the second straight season.The Badgers were barely edged by Minnesota for the WCHA postseason title, and then lost to Dartmouth in the NCAA quarterfinal.Despite a successful regular season, the Bulldogs did not finish...
...super-wealthy former chairman of the investment bank Goldman Sachs Group, is getting a surprisingly strong challenge from Republican Doug Forrester, a super-wealthy benefits-management executive who has antagonized conservatives with his support of abortion rights. Corzine is ahead in polls and it would be considered an upset if Forrester won in the Democratic stronghold. Kerry beat Bush in the state last year, 53 percent to 46 percent, and then-Vice President Al Gore ran ahead of Bush in 2000 by an even more commanding 56 percent to 40 percent. The race has been enlivened in the final days...